Angela, It has been my experience that content production rarely occurs within IT. Typically, the content-producing areas (education, curatorial, conservation, etc.) have representatives that report in a dotted-line fashion to the project manager, who usually sits in IT, on a project-by-project basis. That's not always the easiest structure to maintain, of course. It does, however, help to integrate your projects into the organization as a whole--I tend to think that developing a parallel content-production group within IT that mirrors expertise that already exists elsewhere in the organization tends, over time, to segregate your projects from the rest of that organization.
Koven J. Smith Senior Analyst for Enterprise Content Management The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10028-0198 (212) 396-5063 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Angela O'Neal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Digital Initiatives and Organizational structure Would anyone on the list be willing to share information regarding where your Digital Projects/Digital Initiatives areas fit within your organizational structure? We are trying to determine if content-producing areas (sometimes called Digital Projects/Initiatives, Online Access, etc.) are typically housed within the IT department, collection/curatorial department, or elsewhere. Are there any institutions that have content-based web departments outside of IT? Your help is greatly appreciated! Angela O'Neal Digital Projects Manager Ohio Historical Society 1982 Velma Ave. Columbus, OH 43211 (614) 297-2576 View our collections online: African American Experience in Ohio (dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/) Ohio Memory (www.ohiomemory.org) Ohio Pix (www.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix) Remarkable Ohio (www.remarkableohio.org War Gardens in Ohio (www.ohiohistory.org/garden) --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
