ResearchSpace tender for www.researchspace.org

People

The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, metro Russel Square

Dominic Oldman, doldman@britishmuseum.org: BM deputy head IS, BM lead for IS Development
Katherine Miller, kmiller@britishmuseum.org, t 0207 323 8418, m 07976 737 658: PM (hired specifically for the project?)
Steven Davies, sdavies@britishmuseum.org and M Lewis: procurement
Dr Austin Nevin: Mellon fellow, PM of Courtauld project MFPMFP ("embryonic ResearchSpace"). He'll be Senior Client, will be looking at client issues
Martin Doerr, FORTH-ICS Centre for Cultural Informatics (GR): lead for CIDOC CRM. Can be contracted for ontology work
Seme4: contracted for research/consulting. Did test export of BM data (Merlin) to CRM in RKBExplorer (3Store; Mentions 4Store). Subcontracted people from SotonU
Hugh Glaser (SotonU): RKBExplorer creator, worked on the BM export

Budget

Stage 3 grant (from Mellon, see RS Docs#Grant Proposals: 442.6k EUR (650k USD)
development: 200.6k to 290k EUR (180 to 260k GBP)
- therefore 45 to 65% of the grant is allocated to development
- The budget is actually the high end, but BM may contract for a smaller amount if we feel it's better value for the money

published 3.6.2011
bidders conference 16.6 in London (Vlado)
tender deadline 8.7.2011
vendor demos 11-15.7. It's not a demo, but an interview/pitch. If a vendor wants to demo some working system then even better, but that is not required
decision 29.7
negotiation 1.8
contract 1.9
period of execution:
- the Stage3 grant is "12 months from January 2010"
- BM desired period is 6m, but can be increased to 8-9 months if vendors ask for it. BM is asking for recommendations

Vlado: overall responsible, writing, estimates
Mariana, Svetlio: writing, CRM, try to do some demo with BM data
Kami: contractual
PavelCh: arch research, Nuxeo, maybe estimates
Jana: estimates. ITT will participate in writing proportionally to project share
SS : not clear yet