WP/6
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[edit] Process Management System for content life cycle (16 weeks effort, during months 7-11)
| Workpackage effort | lead | Oxford | Cam | OU | Starts | Ends |
| Total = 16 weeks | Ox | 12 | 0 | 4 | May 2009 | Sep 2009 |
Comments: Leads into WP/6. In this WP, institutions present their own workflows to feed into WP/6.
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The aim is to refine and produce a demonstrator of a workflow tracking system, PMS. This work is to try to scope and code an online database to track progress of all project, activities, content, and RSS items in the system from birth to delivery. It builds upon a simplistic system developed by Oxford called Podchecker, and is expected to expand on it to take in early work and track non-technical parallel project activities centred around the speaker: logging events; talks; and paperwork. This work can be considered to be a practical implementation of documented processes outlined in WP.
The aim is to have a content PMS that allows us to track a podcasting entity from inception, through to delivery. Whilst providing the necessary checks and balances to handle the legal and technical processes, this would provide a clear management overview of the content and its state of readiness. A flexible workflow engine should provide a simple and scalable user interface that can handle parallel tasks and partial completions and be able to allow users and managers to monitor and control the overall task of podcasting.
- Act as gatekeeper for delivery channels. i.e. approval to iTunes U, the web channels etc
- Quality assurance interface, allow for reviews of content (quality, tech) and comments to be logged
- Show progress of podcasts from creation to publish
- Take down Process – able to switch things off
- Manage and log grey activities – events, interviews, projects
Open University will act as a sounding board, incorporating their expertise on processes and policies and also through WP1.3 Policies and Process and WP1.5 Accessibility.
Oxford has a partial web-application (Podchecker) that acts as gatekeeper for the iTunes U service, however it lacks initial progress status reporting (it first becomes aware of podcasts at the RSS creation stage).
This WP follows on from WP1-3 and WP1.5 Accessibility.
Deliverable:
- Demonstrator online tool for recording and tracking activity associated with content management.
Comments: There is also a need from all project partners for a simple statistics application or web site that generates better reports on iTunes U downloads and subscriptions per feed for departments. This relationship to the PMS should be investigated.
Skills required:
