Organisational Structure

Organisational Structure#

Workpackages#

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Fig. 1 Workpackage Structure#

  1. WP 8: Project Management and Coordination Office: Handling overarching project management, quality assurance, coordination, and innovation management.

  2. WP 7: Dissemination & Exploitation: Centered on communication, training, and financial matters.

  3. WP 6: Open Web Search Ecosystem: Focusing on ethics, societal aspects, ecosystem governance, and legal concerns.

  4. WP 5: Federated Data Infrastructure: Covers storage, computing, registry, data management, validation, and more.

  5. WP 4: Search Applications and User Experience: Concentrates on user-centric search applications, including mobile search, recommendation systems, and privacy.

  6. WP 3: Search Architectures and Services: Emphasizes search engines, federated search hubs, and conversational search systems.

  7. WP 2: Index Generation & Content Analysis: Encompasses processes like content analysis, geocoding, knowledge representation, and more.

  8. WP1: Resource Efficient Collaborative Crawling: Deals with crawler coordination, website indexing, console operations, and algorithmic tasks.

  9. Third Party Contributions: The framework also integrates third-party inputs in areas like applications, services, index generation, and data gathering.

Roadmap#

  1. Project Setup (M1 to M3-4): Initial stages involve setting up management tools, website, and defining a DEC strategy.

  2. Operational Prerequisites (M6): These focus on data requirements, finalizing submission systems, and ensuring the grant submission system is ready.

  3. Project Milestones:

    • First components by M12 include a Crawler coordination, a Vertical Search Engine Definition, and Search Model Concepts.

    • Infrastructure developments are set for M12 and M19, with a pilot data infrastructure launch by M12.

    • Several deliverables across M18 to M36 focus on pipelines, infrastructure, ecosystem and exploitation, ending with a final search application evaluation report by M36.

  4. Review Meetings: A significant review meeting is planned for M18.

  5. Completion Indicators: The roadmap is punctuated with completion indicators like Y1 Done, Y2 Done Prototypes, and finally, ‘DONE’ by M36.

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Fig. 2 Milestones and Deliverables#