NGSW Work Plan by Year

I. Year 0ne: September, 1999- September 14, 2000

A. Planning Meetings with all partners: coordination of management team, development of detailed timetables and coordination strategies, creation of advisory committees.
B. Begin identification of best practices in sound digitization (in partnership with Linguistic Data Consortium, CLIR, RLG, and CIC institutions.)
C. Continued participation in NINCH Best Practices in Humanities Digitization Project.
D. Development of meta data tagging scheme.
E. Design architecture of delivery system, chose hardware and software, and stage I implementation of delivery system.
F. Digitization of first 1500 items at MSU, NWU, and CHS.
G. Detailed consultation with engineering team and identify full range of demands on search engine.
F. Begin work on developing search engine.
H. Laboratory development of the transform encryption coding.
I. Prototype implementation for transcript linking and SMIL tagging on Oyez project at NWU.
J. Begin development of university and K-12 educational curriculum interfaces and public exhibit interfaces.
K. Implement system of user tracking and on-line suggestions, feedback, and evaluation.
L. Develop and implement system of ongoing evaluation by team members to explore the interdisciplinary collaborative process of this project.

A. Host conference on best practices and publish findings.
B. Stage II implementation of delivery system.
C. Digitize and Catalogue 3000 items.
D. Deploy transcript linking throughout Oyez project.
E. Continue work on search engine and deploy prototype on first parts of collection.
F. Deploy the new technology of encryption with the emerging database; and refine and test the protocols.
G. Deploy prototype educational k-12 and college interfaces for first two galleries.
H. Conduct first teacher training sessions and evaluate effectiveness of prototypes.

A. Review, revise, and publish best practices Guidelines with partners.
B. Digitize and Catalogue 5000 items.
C. Complete Robust Search Engine for NGSW
D. Explore whether data compression benefits that can be obtained inherently as a byproduct of the encryption.
E. Continued testing and refinement of encryption coding.
F. Begin work on development of quality-enhancement "plug ins" for the user interface.
G. Continues development of educational testbeds and public interfaces.
H. Deploy prototype interfaces for five galleries.
I. Hold teacher-training institutes.

A. Reexamine design, hardware, and software of delivery system, full scale implementation of NGSW.
B. Digitize and Catalogue 5000 items.
C. Refine Search Engine.
D. Deploy interfaces for all 8 galleries.
E. Deploy prototype "plug-ins" for user interface and refine.
F. Development of interfaces for users with vision disabilities.
G. Hold teacher training Institutes
H. Deployment in k-12 partner schools and university classrooms.
I. Report on NGSW to scholarly conferences.

A. Finalize digitization of aural content under grant.
B. Finalize search engine and develop capacity for use by other sites.
C. Finalize encryption and develop capacity for use by other sites.
D. Finalize and deploy plug-ins for user interface.
E. Finalize and deploy interface for users with vision disabilities, make interfaces available for other aural www sites.
F. Full-scale deployment in K-12 classrooms, report at teacher education conferences and in print.
G. Deployment of public exhibits for all 8 galleries.
H. Finalize plan for expansion of gallery nationally across large number of institutional partners.
I. Complete evaluations of engineering challenges, digitization process, educational applications, and cross-disciplinary partnership.

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