Project Name
Developing Librarian Project
Project Objective
A team of scholar librarians will create a digital history of Morningside Heights from 1820-1950. The project is important, but the process of learning emergent technologies and research methods is equally if not more important than the project.
Outcomes
Librarians involved in this project will…
Develop their own research interests and ability to do digital scholarship.
Acquire ability to partner effectively with scholars on digital projects.
Deliverables
A WordPress blog documenting the intellectual and practical process of the project.
An Omeka site on the history of Morningside Heights, 1820-1950.
Audience
Librarians, scholars, students, the public, and educators.
Team Member Roles and Responsibilities
Project Management
Ensure good communication and adherence to timelines. Keeps track of progress. Removes roadblocks. In charge of outreach.
Scholarly Review Team
Verifies references and scholarship, completes environmental scan of similar projects, and pushes the team towards intellectual coherence.
Development Team
Responsible for functionality of site, administration of code base, troubleshooting, debugging, and identifying new technological directions for project.
Design Team
Make recommendations on and implement how the site is organized, presented and contextualized.
Timing and Constraints
The DHC will provide an institutional home for the project.
The project will be completed by January 2015.
Neither the DHC nor the Library assumes responsibility for the sustainability of the project or the blog documenting the project beyond the two years of this agreement.
The project will be well-documented, including the documentation required for ongoing support, and the documentation preserved by the project manager.
Communication
Project members will make every effort to keep in regular contact by email or other electronic means. The preferred means of communication will be email.
Deadlines
Project members will make every effort to attend meetings as arranged. If unable to attend, they will communicate this to the project managers as soon as possible.
Project members will jointly establish and attempt to meet self-imposed deadlines, in part through providing the project with lists of commitments, so that reminders will be sent out as a matter of routine.
Credit
When referring to individual contributions, a team member can speak of that contribution as his or hers. When referring to the whole project, team members should always credit the team. We encourage everyone to share with the team when they make public mentions of the project.
When the project is completed, the team will work together to promote the process and project.
Copyright
See post on Copyright and DH.