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-<management>
- <head-links>
- <table width="550">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <a href="project-objectives.html" target="content"><img src="./../../images/PreviousArrow.gif" width="26" height="26" border="0" alt="Previous Page"/></a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="../project.html" target="content">Index</a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="contribution.html" target="content"><img src="./../../images/NextArrow.gif" width="26" height="26" border="0" alt="Next Page"/></a>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <br/>
- </head-links>
- <introduction>
- <h1>Project Management</h1>
- <p>The Project management will be assured by the following relevant
- roles:</p>
- <ol>
- <li>Project Manager</li>
- <li>Exploitation manager</li>
- <li>Work-package Leaders</li>
- <li>Technical Contributors</li>
- </ol>
- <p>and by the following Project Bodies:</p>
- <ol>
- <li>Project Coordination Committee (PCC)</li>
- <li>Project Exploitation Board</li>
- <li>Work-package Teams.</li>
- </ol>
- </introduction>
- <main>
- <project-manager site="bologna" file="asperti">
- <mandate>
- The mandate of the Project Manager is to represent the Project, report to
- the Commission, monitor overall performance of the project, ensure
- accomplishment of the technical objectives, promote project visibility,
- promote dissemination of project results in the relevant international
- forums, promote acceptance of project results, administer
- project resources and monitor project spending.
- </mandate>
- </project-manager>
- <exploitation-manager site="aei" file="wegner">
- <mandate>
- He is responsible for coordinating exploitation activities undertaken
- by the Project Exploitation Board (PEB) in close cooperation with the
- Project Coordination Committee (PCC).
- </mandate>
- </exploitation-manager>
- <work-package-leaders>
- <mandate>
- They are responsible for the performance of
- Work-packages, and they must be committed to the Work-package for at
- least five man months per year.
- </mandate>
- </work-package-leaders>
- <technical-contributors>
- <mandate>
- Technical Contributors are specialised
- staff provided by the partners. They could be either people active on
- a stable basis into a Work-package, or people who contribute from time
- to time on specific tasks related to the work-plan (external
- contributors).
- </mandate>
- </technical-contributors>
- <project-coordination-committee>
- <chair site="bologna" file="asperti"/>
- <member site="bologna" file="asperti"/>
- <member site="dfki" file="kohlhase"/>
- <member site="nijmegen" file="geuvers"/>
- <member site="aei" file="schutz"/>
- <member site="trusted-logic" file="loiseaux"/>
- <member site="inria" file="rideau"/>
- <mandate>
- The PCC is chaired by the Project
- Manager and constituted by one representative from each Partner, and
- is the main decision body of the Consortium. It is in charge
- of all formal decisions regarding technical direction of the work,
- proper interrelation between Work-packages,
- relations with IST Office, policies for promotion of results,
- administrative arrangements.
- </mandate>
- </project-coordination-committee>
- <project-exploitation-board>
- <chair site="aei" file="wegner"/>
- <member site="bologna" file="asperti"/>
- <member site="dfki" file="moschner"/>
- <member site="nijmegen" file="geuvers"/>
- <member site="aei" file="wegner"/>
- <member site="trusted-logic" file="loiseaux"/>
- <member site="inria" file="herbelin"/>
- <mandate>
- The PEB is chaired by the
- Project Exploitation Manager, and composed by the Exploitation
- Managers of each partner. It monitors the state of the art in
- the domains of content-based information technologies, W3C activities,
- Web publishing, and digital libraries. It is responsible for
- planning the dissemination and exploitation strategies for the
- consortium, to be approved by the PCC.
- </mandate>
- </project-exploitation-board>
- <work-package-teams>
- <mandate>
- They are constituted of the technical contributors.
- Each team is chaired by a Work-package Leader, and it is in
- charge of carrying out the technical work described in
- each Work-Package.
- </mandate>
- </work-package-teams>
- </main>
- <other-infos>
- <h2>Decision Process</h2>
- <p>Decisions is normally taken by seeking consensus. However,
- after a reasonable amount of time has been allowed to illustrate
- and defend of conflicting positions, in order to avoid deadlock
- in project operational progress, the approval of two-third majority
- of the partners is sufficient. If the decision being taken
- is unacceptable
- to partners found in the minority positions, the resolution of the
- conflict will be elevated to each partner's higher executive level.
- If no resolution is possible, than the standard ``red flag'' procedure
- will be used, as a last resort. Either the PCC or the Project Manager
- can initiate the conflict resolution procedure.</p>
-
- <h2>Information Flow</h2>
- <p>Information flow within the Project is ensured by exchange of
- internal technical papers, notification of relevant new publications
- technologies or standards, and reports from external meetings.
- All technical documentation generated by the project should be
- exchangeable in electronic format, according to a set of guidelines
- agreed at project start-up. The project Manager enforces
- adherence to these guidelines. Only strictly formal correspondence
- is exchanged by ordinary mail and telefax. Urgent correspondence
- over e-mail is sent with a request for explicit acknowledgement.</p>
- <p>The Coordinating Partner is responsible to prepare and maintain
- a Web page of the project and a CVS repository (also available via Web).
- The CVS repository is meant to keep the trace of the overall
- progress of the Project, and it is used by the PCC to monitor
- the state of advancement of the work. Each partner periodically
- submit reports to the prime contractor, listing all technical
- contributions, publications, meeting attendance and other information
- which may help in understanding the provided effort and cost figures.</p>
- <p>The Project has established a high quality Web site for internal and
- external communications. It has been operational as from one month of
- the commencement date and will be maintained during the project duration.
- The ``members only'' area includes e.g. all private deliverables,
- progress and management reports, and cost statements. The open area
- includes the project presentation as defined in Appendix 2 of the
- ``Guidelines
- for Contract Preparation'' document, all public deliverables, and any
- relevant information suggested by the Project Exploitation Board.</p>
-
- <h2>Quality Procedures</h2>
- <p>For all deliverables, the following review procedure
- is adopted: release by the Work-Package Leader, two-week review
- period for comments by the PCC, two-week amendment period to incorporate
- PCC recommendations, one-week balloting period for approval by the
- PCC.</p>
-
- <h2>Confidentiality and IPR handling</h2>
- <p>Matters related to Confidentiality and IPR handling have been defined
- in the ``Consortium Agreement''. As regards literature papers
- originated from work in the Project, there are two
- categories of papers:</p>
- <ol>
- <li>Project Endorsed Publications, requiring notification and approval by
- the PCC.</li>
- <li>Project-related publications, only requiring notification to
- the PCC. They must contain an acknowledgement of support by the
- project Consortium and, if required by the PCC, a disclaimer that
- the views are not necessarily those of the Consortium.</li>
- </ol>
- <p>Concerning possible contributions to Standards, they are
- directly submitted by project members.</p>
- </other-infos>
- <tail-links>
- <br/>
- <table width="550">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <a href="project-objectives.html" target="content"><img src="./../../images/PreviousArrow.gif" width="26" height="26" border="0" alt="Previous Page"/></a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="../project.html" target="content">Index</a>
- </td>
- <td>
- <a href="contribution.html" target="content"><img src="./../../images/NextArrow.gif" width="26" height="26" border="0" alt="Next Page"/></a>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </tail-links>
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