Common use of Outline of the Project Clause in Contracts

Outline of the Project. The project consisted of seven interconnected parts (‘workpackages’), each dealing with a specific aspect. A content policy and a supply roadmap were set up to be able to manage the process of the collections that were meant to be part of the HOPE project. During this whole process access and use restrictions (IPR, copyright, privacy) had to be taken into account. Detailed guidelines on how to cope with these rights, which are very often unclear in the domain of social and labour history, were made available in the Best Practices wiki, which is accessible to everyone (not just to project participants). It was important for all participating institutes to reach a common level of expertise and to agree on the best practices and standards to be adopted. In order to achieve this, documentation on agreed standards and best practices was prepared, as well as guidelines for local implementation. This documentation was used in local workshops to assist the partners in preparing for the technical phase of the project. The documentation is available in the Best Practices wiki as well. To ensure commitment to the user and to guarantee persistency of the descriptions and the objects, it was decided that all metadata records and digital objects should be assigned a Persistent Identifier. 1 A complete list of partners can be found in the annexes. Each institution had to prepare their metadata records and digital objects. To ensure that users can find what they are searching for, the descriptions of the collections’ items needed to be harmonised between the partners. Metadata of colelctions or parts of collections were even enriched, especially with keywords from the common list of themes, generally covering the field of social and labour history. This will improve cross-collection search and discovery in the Social History Portal. Two of them (CEDIAS/Musée Social, france, and Persmuseum, the Netherlands, already contributed during the project period. This part of the work obviously has not finished with the end of the HOPE project as such, but will be an ongoing effort. Finally, Project Management provided coordination and facilitated teamwork among all project partners. An important aspect was also to work on the sustainability of the project’s results and the network as such.