Melissa J Baker-Young
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In March 2015, Michigan Publishing was awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled “Building a Hosted Platform for Managing Monographic Source Materials.” In a nutshell, Fulcrum, as the platform is now called, is about building an online platform using the Hydra/Fedora framework to publish media-rich scholarship.
The core team consists of a project lead, project manager, data librarian, UI/UX specialist and three developers.
Below is one of our stories, boldly told through the lens of the project manager. No developers were seriously harmed in the writing of this post.
The core team consists of a project lead, project manager, data librarian, UI/UX specialist and three developers.
Below is one of our stories, boldly told through the lens of the project manager. No developers were seriously harmed in the writing of this post.
The open source software Hydra is, by its name and nature, modular and complex. Using this technology gives the University of Michigan the opportunity to participate in the development of an increasingly-adopted suite of tools with the flexibility to accommodate a host of needs and engage in the spirit and philosophy of open source software development. With open source, we must concern ourselves not just with our own institution’s needs and priorities, but those of a broader community.