The Mellon Foundation’s grant for this community design process was made in December 2008 to the Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure at Yale University, for which Meg Bellinger is the director.  Ken Hamma is the Project Manager, having direct responsibility for leading the work and delivering the requirements document.

Angela Spinazze will facilitate and document the community design meetings, leveraging her work with the CollectionSpace meetings organized by the Museum of the Moving Image under another grant from the Research in Information Technology Program of the Mellon Foundation.

Chuck Patch (National Gallery of Art, Washington), Sam Quigley (Art Institute of Chicago), Joe Padfield (National Gallery, London), Koven Smith (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), and Sam Wood (British Museum) complete the core team that is responsible for managing the design meetings and assisting with their documentation.

Murtha Baca (Getty Research Institute) and Franziska Frey (Rochester Institute of Technology), leading experts in data standards, will record data issues that arise in the design meetings and provide direction for data and vocabulary standards in the requirements document.