Management Plan for NGSW

PI Mark Kornbluh is responsible for coordination of project and management of funds. A full time project manager will be hired at MSU in spring of 1999.
Project is an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional collaborative effort. Each unit involved at MSU and its partnering institutions will designate one or more individuals to participate in management team. The team includes Mark Kornbluh (MATRIX/H-Net), Michael Seadle (MSU Library), Jack Deller (MSU Engineering), Joyce Grant (MSU Education), Dennis Boone (MSU MATRIX Systems Administrator, Jerry Goldman (Northwestern), John Hansen (University of Colorado Engineering), Douglas Greenberg and Russell Lewis (Chicago Historical Society), Tom Jacobs (InvoTek), MSU project manager (to be hired), and others designated by these principles. Management team will utilize regular face-to-face meetings, conference calls, a listserv, and a web-based bulletin board to coordinate their efforts. Team members will each maintain an online time line and web diary that will be used to track components of project.
Each partner in the project will provide the management team with a quarterly written evaluation of progress and a detailed annual report.
Project will make extensive use of advisory boards for both suggestions and evaluation. These include:
1. A national engineering advisory board of 5-7 people to provide feedback on all engineering issues involved in the project. This board which is being created solely for this project in consultation with the NSF project officer and will meet annually during at least he first three years of the project and will keep in contact electronically as evaluation and feedback is needed.
2. A national committee, created by MSU in partnership with the Linguistic Data Consortium, CLIR, RLG, and other CIC institutions to explore best practices in sound digitization, will provide feedback and evaluation of NGSW digitization protocols.
3. A content advisory board of 10-12 individuals, created for this project, will include scholars, publishers, and journalists. We will work with the Oral History Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Historical Association, the National Public Radio, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Michigan Humanities Council and others in assembling this board.
4. A K-12 Teachers Advisory Board will be developed out of the K-12 partners in the project and will involve individual teachers who pilot use of the NGSW in their classrooms.