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80 <h1>Project Management</h1>
81 <p>The Project management will be assured by the following relevant
84 <li>Project Manager</li>
85 <li>Exploitation manager</li>
86 <li>Work-package Leaders</li>
87 <li>Technical Contributors</li>
89 <p>and by the following Project Bodies:</p>
91 <li>Project Coordination Committee (PCC)</li>
92 <li>Project Exploitation Board</li>
93 <li>Work-package Teams.</li>
97 <project-manager site="bologna" file="asperti">
99 The mandate of the Project Manager is to represent the Project, report to
100 the Commission, monitor overall performance of the project, ensure
101 accomplishment of the technical objectives, promote project visibility,
102 promote dissemination of project results in the relevant international
103 forums, promote acceptance of project results, administer
104 project resources and monitor project spending.
107 <exploitation-manager site="aei" file="wegner">
109 He is responsible for coordinating exploitation activities undertaken
110 by the Project Exploitation Board (PEB) in close cooperation with the
111 Project Coordination Committee (PCC).
113 </exploitation-manager>
114 <work-package-leaders>
116 They are responsible for the performance of
117 Work-packages, and they must be committed to the Work-package for at
118 least five man months per year.
120 </work-package-leaders>
121 <technical-contributors>
123 Technical Contributors are specialised
124 staff provided by the partners. They could be either people active on
125 a stable basis into a Work-package, or people who contribute from time
126 to time on specific tasks related to the work-plan (external
129 </technical-contributors>
130 <project-coordination-committee>
131 <chair site="bologna" file="asperti"/>
132 <member site="bologna" file="asperti"/>
133 <member site="dfki" file="kohlhase"/>
134 <member site="nijmegen" file="geuvers"/>
135 <member site="aei" file="schutz"/>
136 <member site="trusted-logic" file="loiseaux"/>
137 <member site="inria" file="rideau"/>
139 The PCC is chaired by the Project
140 Manager and constituted by one representative from each Partner, and
141 is the main decision body of the Consortium. It is in charge
142 of all formal decisions regarding technical direction of the work,
143 proper interrelation between Work-packages,
144 relations with IST Office, policies for promotion of results,
145 administrative arrangements.
147 </project-coordination-committee>
148 <project-exploitation-board>
149 <chair site="aei" file="wegner"/>
150 <member site="bologna" file="asperti"/>
151 <member site="dfki" file="moschner"/>
152 <member site="nijmegen" file="geuvers"/>
153 <member site="aei" file="wegner"/>
154 <member site="trusted-logic" file="loiseaux"/>
155 <member site="inria" file="herbelin"/>
157 The PEB is chaired by the
158 Project Exploitation Manager, and composed by the Exploitation
159 Managers of each partner. It monitors the state of the art in
160 the domains of content-based information technologies, W3C activities,
161 Web publishing, and digital libraries. It is responsible for
162 planning the dissemination and exploitation strategies for the
163 consortium, to be approved by the PCC.
165 </project-exploitation-board>
168 They are constituted of the technical contributors.
169 Each team is chaired by a Work-package Leader, and it is in
170 charge of carrying out the technical work described in
173 </work-package-teams>
176 <h2>Decision Process</h2>
177 <p>Decisions is normally taken by seeking consensus. However,
178 after a reasonable amount of time has been allowed to illustrate
179 and defend of conflicting positions, in order to avoid deadlock
180 in project operational progress, the approval of two-third majority
181 of the partners is sufficient. If the decision being taken
183 to partners found in the minority positions, the resolution of the
184 conflict will be elevated to each partner's higher executive level.
185 If no resolution is possible, than the standard ``red flag'' procedure
186 will be used, as a last resort. Either the PCC or the Project Manager
187 can initiate the conflict resolution procedure.</p>
189 <h2>Information Flow</h2>
190 <p>Information flow within the Project is ensured by exchange of
191 internal technical papers, notification of relevant new publications
192 technologies or standards, and reports from external meetings.
193 All technical documentation generated by the project should be
194 exchangeable in electronic format, according to a set of guidelines
195 agreed at project start-up. The project Manager enforces
196 adherence to these guidelines. Only strictly formal correspondence
197 is exchanged by ordinary mail and telefax. Urgent correspondence
198 over e-mail is sent with a request for explicit acknowledgement.</p>
199 <p>The Coordinating Partner is responsible to prepare and maintain
200 a Web page of the project and a CVS repository (also available via Web).
201 The CVS repository is meant to keep the trace of the overall
202 progress of the Project, and it is used by the PCC to monitor
203 the state of advancement of the work. Each partner periodically
204 submit reports to the prime contractor, listing all technical
205 contributions, publications, meeting attendance and other information
206 which may help in understanding the provided effort and cost figures.</p>
207 <p>The Project has established a high quality Web site for internal and
208 external communications. It has been operational as from one month of
209 the commencement date and will be maintained during the project duration.
210 The ``members only'' area includes e.g. all private deliverables,
211 progress and management reports, and cost statements. The open area
212 includes the project presentation as defined in Appendix 2 of the
214 for Contract Preparation'' document, all public deliverables, and any
215 relevant information suggested by the Project Exploitation Board.</p>
217 <h2>Quality Procedures</h2>
218 <p>For all deliverables, the following review procedure
219 is adopted: release by the Work-Package Leader, two-week review
220 period for comments by the PCC, two-week amendment period to incorporate
221 PCC recommendations, one-week balloting period for approval by the
224 <h2>Confidentiality and IPR handling</h2>
225 <p>Matters related to Confidentiality and IPR handling have been defined
226 in the ``Consortium Agreement''. As regards literature papers
227 originated from work in the Project, there are two
228 categories of papers:</p>
230 <li>Project Endorsed Publications, requiring notification and approval by
232 <li>Project-related publications, only requiring notification to
233 the PCC. They must contain an acknowledgement of support by the
234 project Consortium and, if required by the PCC, a disclaimer that
235 the views are not necessarily those of the Consortium.</li>
237 <p>Concerning possible contributions to Standards, they are
238 directly submitted by project members.</p>
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