diglib: RE: thinking through maintenance of digital resources and building communication methods

["Andrew R. Bonamici" <bonamici@uoregon.edu>]

Everyone:

Here's a graphic that I find helpful in thinking about long-term 
organizational  & communication structures required to set priorities, 
develop, design, & maintain a high-quality, consistent web presence:
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webpub/resources/webteams/integrated.html>

This is a good representation of the inherently collaborative nature of 
media (web) development, & makes the point that assembling the expertise 
and institutional authority needed for success can *only* be accomplished 
in a cross-disciplinary team. In this model the major functional areas are 
broken out as
- Strategic Leadership
- Web Leadership/Management
- Content Development
- Creative/Design/Production
- Web Application Development, and
- Communications/Outreach/Marketing.

Note that each area has its own area of expertise, professional peer group, 
& research interests, but all operate  together in a dynamic relationship.

What are some implications of a model like this for sitewide vs. subsite 
management? For starters, the relative weight of involvement from each 
functional area might vary according to the project. Also, in some cases 
authority can be delegated in advance  -- for example, to Juanita as Web 
Coordinator, & to WAG, or to the Dig Lib voting group for digital library 
projects, etc. All core functions need to be deliberately included, though, 
or problems will arise sooner or later.

I have many more thoughts on this but no time to write them down now; to be 
continued, in one forum or another.

ARB