Archival Sound Recordings Project

Web delivery of audio from the holdings of the Sound Archive will enable the British Library to make a unique contribution to the new learning environment for UK higher and further education, and will provide indicators to the vast untapped resource that lies beyond the very small but compelling selection of recordings to be included in this project, thus contributing to the British Library vision of ‘helping people to advance knowledge to enrich lives’.

Project Initiation Document

Project information
Programme
Senior Responsible Owner
Project Manager

British Library Digitisation Programme
Crispin Jewitt
Peter Findlay

Document change history
Version

Date

0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4

05.07.2004
12.07.2004
16.07.2004
23.07.2004

0.5

04.08.2004

Project Initiation
Document
Digitisation Programme

Author

Status / Change

Peter Findlay
Peter Findlay
Peter Findlay
Peter Findlay &
Crispin Jewitt
Crispin Jewitt

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For review by SRO
For review by SRO + CPO
For review by SRO
Project Board
Revisions agreed at 28.07.2004
Project Board Meeting

Version
0.5

Date
04.08.04

Archival Sound Recordings Project

CONTENTS LIST
1.

INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................... 5

1.1
1.2
1.3
2.

PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT ................................................................................................... 5
PROVENANCE OF THIS DOCUMENT ............................................................................................ 5
APPROVAL OF THIS DOCUMENT ................................................................................................ 5
CONTEXT FOR THE PROJECT ............................................................................................ 5

2.1
2.2
2.3
3.

BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................................... 5
CORPORATE PRIORITY ............................................................................................................... 5
PROGRAMME CONTEXT ............................................................................................................. 6
PROJECT DEFINITION........................................................................................................... 6

3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7

PROJECT OBJECTIVE .................................................................................................................. 6
PROJECT SCOPE ......................................................................................................................... 6
PROJECT DELIVERABLES ........................................................................................................... 7
DEFINED METHOD OF APPROACH ............................................................................................... 8
BUSINESS AREAS AFFECTED .................................................................................................... 10
CONSTRAINTS AND ASSUMPTIONS ........................................................................................... 11
DEPENDENCIES........................................................................................................................ 12

4.

RISK MANAGEMENT............................................................................................................ 13

5.

BUSINESS CASE...................................................................................................................... 13

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7

REASONS ................................................................................................................................. 13
OPTIONS