Digital Projects
A guide to outlining the size and scope of the project, technical requirements, and its potential impact
Digital Projects: Planning & management
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The Collaborator's Bill of RightsDigital projects can be large and complex, and it is important to get credit for your work. This tool outlines some best practices for crediting and collaboration.
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Designing your first projectA series of lectures on how to construct the fundamentals that your project will need throughout its initial stages and that will help ensure its long term success.
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Managing your projectStrategies and technologies for building, managing, and maintaining a work plan as your project evolves.
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Slides: Project management for research projectsSlides from the PMP workshop, offered via the University of Calgary Library. Contact me if you'd like to have this workshop offered to a group.
Formal agreements for digital projects
Project charters
Academic teams are different from those in the private sector in terms of their motivations, incentives, and rewards. These sample project charters were created specifically for academic work teams, and provide helpful guidance for what to include in an academic project charter.
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The iterative design of a project charter for interdisciplinary researchRuecker, S., & Radzikowska, M. (2008). The iterative design of a project charter for interdisciplinary research. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems - DIS ’08 (pp. 288–294). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.
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INKE Administrative Structure, Omnibus DocumentSiemens, L., Siemens, R., Cunningham, R., Dobson, T., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., & Warwick, C. (2009). INKE Administrative Structure, Omnibus Document. New Knowledge Environments.
Publishing Contracts
As authors incorporate an increasing number of digital tools and methods into their work, and as the format of scholarly works changes due to the networked environment, publishing agreements are being adapted.
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Model Publishing Contract for Digital ScholarshipThis site provides a model author-publisher contract and relevant addenda optimized for the publication of long-form digital scholarship.
Project management tools
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RedmineA flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
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BasecampA private, secure online space for project teams combining message boards, chat, check-ins, to-do lists, file storage, and a centralized schedule.
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Google templates: Gantt chartsA selection of pre-made gantt chart templates for you to use and adapt.
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