Stanford Support Team

We provide managerial, editorial, and technical support for the five projects. Our activities during Year 1 (March '97 through May '98):

• Procurement of project resources (workstations, servers, software)
• Site development process by brainstorming with primary investigators about the purpose, audiences, and data collection/user interaction requirements of each site
• Development of on-line communications mechanisms, principally listservs and threaded e-mail discussion groups for project participants
• Creation of help documentation for media conversion and metadata
• Consultation with staff in project libraries, principally Stanford and UC Berkeley, about the relationship of STIM to the general state of 'digital library' developments
• Development of a distributed data model and general computing infraststructure
  

 

Functionality at the End of Year 1:

• User identification and login
• User form submission for surveys
• User submission of digital documents (e.g., text files, word processing files, image files)
• Web-based threaded discussion groups
• Web-based chat rooms
• Document search capabilities within and across sites

Activities in Year 2 (May '98 to March '99):

• Support of primary investigators in the enrichment of the archival nature of their sites
• Support of primary investigators in site design and site design issues
• Development of "second phase" functionality for their user communities on the basis of data gathered/successful community interactions
• Development of reporting/data display capabilities as required for each site both internal (for use by primary investigators) and external (as part of the site) use
• Support of primary investigators in the planning for post-project site maintenance
• Creation of metadata for each web site using the Dublin Core, a set of 15 metadata elements specifically developed to support web-based cataloging.

Contact Information:

Jim Coleman
(Project Manager)
E-mail: jim_coleman@harvard.edu

Sigrid Mueller
(Project Editor)
E-mail: sigrid@leland.stanford.edu
Tel.: (650) 725-0980
Fax: (650) 725-8495

David Soergel
(Software Developer)
E-mail: tree@leland.stanford.edu
Tel.: (650) 725-8495