Agreement III-1: Year One Schedule
This version dated August 5, 1997Post your comments via Hypernews
This is a rough first year task schedule that would enable AMICO to provide content to one distributor in the university sector, for the purpose of testing the content acquisition, enhancement, and delivery systems. Initial months of the second year phase in AMICO's independent administrative structure and establish the basis for a first year of full availability to universities, museums and public libraries.
Tentative Schedule for First Year of AMICO Activities
Month Organizational Task Operational and Technical Tasks Aug. 97 Invitation to join issued Founding members provide 10 sample records (both text and image) Sept. -
Oct 97AMICO Formed Sept. 22-23 Begin analysis of members' data Open discussion with Distributors Define data distribution requirements Open dialog with Vocabulary and Authority providers Define data enhancement requirements AAMD begins incorporation process Define hardware and software requirements for AMICO system Nov. 97 Arrangements with Vocabulary and Authority providers Develop data enhancement specifications Announce Test-bed Refine Test-bed Objectives Dec. 97 Contract Distributors Develop data distribution specification Solicit distributor product definitions Begin test of output requirements Acquire/contract AMICO server System procurement and implementation Jan. 98 Members begin to deliver data to AMICO Final input specifications to members Feb. 98 Select university test users Conduct Focus Groups with users Finalize distributor product definitions Review distributor's product specifications Mar. 98 All member data to AMICO Data enhancement at AMICO Accept distributor product definitions Final output requirements established with Distributors April 98 Contract test-bed participants Deliver list of test-bed contents Data enhancement and formatting to output requirements May 9 8 AMICO incorporated independently Enhanced data returned to museums June 98 AMICO Catalog Publicly Announced/ Available Final delivery to distributor July 98 Test-bed launched Distributor delivers to testbed users Pre-test data collected
Last modified on October 10, 2001
