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Form PM3 ( Interim
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FORMAT OF PROGRESS REPORT |
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(To
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no greater than 3 months)
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Form PM3(Part 2-Capital)
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Project Title: |
Scottish Archive
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Project Ref No: |
DG-95-05231 |
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Name of Grantee: |
Scottish Archive
Network |
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As stated in the
Monitoring Documents referred to in your Grant Contract, you are required to
submit to NHMF a Progress Report with each grant drawdown application, or at
maximum intervals of 3 months in the absence of an application, reporting on how the project is progressing
towards meeting the Approved Purposes. The headings and format
of the Report, addressing the principal monitoring criteria, are shown below.
These headings and format must be followed, but you may prepare your Report
using computer software incorporating spreadsheets as appropriate. All
sections (expanded in size as
necessary) are to be completed fully on each monthly report. (Use
supplementary sheets if necessary). PM forms should be returned in hardcopy and must be
completed fully. Failure to do so will delay processing your Grant |
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Report No: |
34 |
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Report Date: |
19 Feb 2002 |
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Covering Period: |
Jan 2002 |
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1.
General Progress/ Programme and Project Objectives
Enter summary report on general progress towards
achievement of the Approved Purposes identifying any problems or issues to
which NHMF’s attention should be drawn. Note any actions proposed in response
to problems or particular areas of risk.
The
project remains within budget and is scheduled to be completed on time. |
See
annex 1 for detailed progress. |
See
annex 2 for update on special conditions. |
The
minutes of the Project Board held in January are attached at Annex 3. |
The
Project Performance Information is now held on the accompanying spreadsheet. |
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2. Partnership Funding
Enter progress towards securing partnership funds
Source of Funding |
Amount expected (A) |
Amount received to date (B) |
Balance to come A-B) |
Date balance expected |
NAS |
£425,967 |
£117,262 |
£308,705 |
Dec
2002 |
GSU |
£703,785 |
£346,188 |
£357,597 |
Dec
2002 |
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£1,129,752 |
£463,450 |
£666,302 |
Dec
2002 |
Totals
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Explain any changes to sources
of Partnership Funding since the last Progress Report
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3. Change Control
Enter requests for any material change to the Approved
Purposes which have been approved by
NHMF since the last Report and advise of any potential requests for such change
in the future.
Description
of Change Item |
Date
of request to NHMF |
Date
of NHMF response |
Effect
on achievement of Approved Purposes |
Effect
on Programme |
Effect
on Costs |
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Note: NHMF Approval is required for any
material change to the Approved Purposes
Report on any effect to delivery of the Approved
Purposes of any cost transfer between the principal cost elements stated in
your “Notification of Grant”. (Note: no such transfer is to be made between
capital and revenue elements, or between VAT and any other cost element,
without NHMF prior consent ).
Amount
of cost transfer (£’000) |
Cost
transfer from (cost element): |
Cost
transfer to (cost element): |
Effect
on delivery of Approved Purposes |
N/A |
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4. Review of Design Drawings and
Documentation
Enter any design reviews or comments received from
NHMF or its Project Monitors since your last report
Work
element for which Design/Document review has been carried out |
Date
reviewed |
NHMF/Project
Monitor’s comments (if any) |
N/A |
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5. Timetable/Programme
Enter progress compared with the agreed
Timetable/Programme for key activities
Grant Expiry Date:
Key Activity or milestone |
Planned completion date |
Actual (or currently forecast) completion date |
Variance |
Comment |
See Annex 1 |
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Overall
Project Completion |
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6. Expenditure on Approved Costs
a) Cost Control
Enter expenditure to date against the key items
of Approved Cost (i.e. the costs on
which NHMF has agreed to pay the Payment Percentage) compared with that
detailed in the pre-commencement documentation. (VAT and Contingencies to be
separately identified).
Items of Approved Cost (Principal cost elements) |
Approved Costs to completion as agreed at award |
Out-turn Costs as currently
forecast (A) |
Planned costs to date - as submitted with Form PM1 (B) |
Actual costs to Date (C) |
Variance (C-B) |
Balance of costs (A- C) |
Staff
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£2,170,889 |
£1,786,052 |
£1,786,052 |
£1,293,638 |
£-492,414 |
£492,414 |
Internet
Server |
£449,700 |
£ 412,225 |
£ 412,225 |
£ 183,069 |
£-229,156 |
£229,156 |
Communication |
£51,222 |
£ 41,018 |
£ 41,018 |
£ 41,214 |
£ 196 |
£ -196 |
Digitisation |
£349,191 |
£217,500 |
£217,500 |
£ 256,853 |
£ 39,353 |
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Other |
£543,500 |
£477,600 |
£477,600 |
£ 346,711 |
£-130,889 |
£130,889 |
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Contingency |
£2,631,805 |
£135,506 |
£135,506 |
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£-135,506 |
£135,506 |
VAT |
N/A |
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Totals
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£6,196,307 |
£3,069,901 |
£3,069,901 |
£2,121,485 |
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Note any significant changes to the apportionment of
costs between the principal cost elements prior to their commitment. Note the
effect of any such changes and confirm that they will not affect the Approved
Purposes including expected quality.
Cost
transfer from : |
Cost
transfer to: |
Amount
(£) |
Effect
of Transfer |
N/A |
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b) Cash Flow
Enter the expected timing of expenditure of the total
Balance (A-C) calculated above and the funding sources to cover the expenditure
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To
date |
Next Qtr |
2nd
Qtr |
3rd
Qtr |
4th
Qtr |
5th
Qtr |
Later |
Total
to Completion |
Expenditure
of Approved Cost |
Enter Total
of C above |
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Enter Total of A above |
Funded
by: |
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NHMF |
£2,121,485 |
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£3,069,901 |
Other
source (1) |
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Other
source (2) |
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Other
source (3) |
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Total
Funding (to equal Expenditure of Approved Cost) |
£2,121,485 |
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£3,069,901 |
7. Procurement
Enter the current procurement status of any
significant goods, works, or services currently being procured for the project,
or awarded since the last Report.
Goods/Works/ Services : brief description |
Approx Value |
EU procurement Applies? Yes./No |
No of tenderers |
Date of tender return |
Date of award |
Selected
Contractor/supplier/ consultant |
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Identify any goods/works/services not awarded to the
lowest tenderer and provide reasons why the selected
supplier/consultant/contractor offered best value for money.
8. Property Ownership and Possession
Note any evidence provided at
the request of NHMF or the Project Monitor.
Property Description and
evidence provided |
Date evidence provided to
NHMF |
N/A |
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9. Insurance
Enter the insurances you have effected:
Cover |
Effective From Date |
Expiry Date |
Employer
Liability Insurance |
01/02/02 |
31/01/03 |
Computer
Insurance |
21/10/01 |
21/10/02 |
Office
Insurance: Including Goods In Transit & Officers Liability Insurance. |
01/02/02 |
31/01/03 |
10. Appointment of
Staff (Revenue Elements only, if
any)
List the salaried staff appointed (applicable to “Revenue” elements
of project only) since your last Report and the total number of volunteers
currently employed (if any).
a) Salaried Staff (Note: applicable
only to staff whose salaries are included as Eligible Costs in the Approved
project.
Position |
Date Appointed |
Job Description sent to NHMF
(Yes/No) |
Media in which advert placed |
Employment Contract to NHMF (Yes/No) |
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b) Volunteer Staff
The total number of Volunteer staff employed at present is …………11…… (Details are
provided with PM3 (Part1)
11. Statutory Consents
Enter the status of the principal statutory consents
required to complete the project
Consent Required |
Granting Authority |
Actual or expected date of
consent |
Planning |
N/A |
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Building |
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Monument |
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Others |
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12. Publicity and Grant Acknowledgement
Enter displayed acknowledgement, press releases, or
other publicity issued since the last report:
Description |
Date Issued |
Approved by NHMF (Yes/No) |
Displayed
acknowledgement |
N/A |
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Press
Releases issued |
25/01/02 |
Y |
Publicity
issued |
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13. Photographic Records
Y
Confirm that you are making photographic records of
the project Y
14. Special Conditions
Indicate progress towards satisfying the Special
Conditions (if any) noted in the Contract:
No |
Special Condition |
Target Date for compliance |
Current Status |
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Name
of Grantee: Scottish Archive Network
Address:
Thomas Thomson House, 99 Bankhead Crossway North, Edinburgh, EH11 4DX
Signed
for Grantee: …Rob Mildren……………………………………………………..
Date: 19/02/02………………………….
Work on collection description creation
continued in the following archives:
South Lanarkshire
Council Archives was a new start, migrating some good data supplied by the
Archive; but no further work will occur here for some weeks, it is expected.
Editing work took place on
The internal editing of Stirling
University’s data was completed, and the completed database will be despatched for local review as soon as possible. The Aberdeen editing work was almost complete
by the end of the month. Some work was
also done on the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow, data, to
ensure that it had been migrated well into MS Access from MS Word, and some
refinements were made. Similar work was
also done on about half of the Falkirk Museums History Research Centre data.
Contact was continued with all the
participating archives where work was scheduled for later this year to explain
roughly when SCAN’s work would start. Visits were made to St Andrews University
Library Special Collections, and to the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh),
to exchange views on SCAN work: the former as it had recently received Archives
Hub funding, and the latter because it was 18 months since we had last been in
contact and we needed to be absolutely certain what work we would be undertaking. An internal meeting to consider the schedule
for 2002 was held at end January, at which we considered a draft programme. The programme had previously been shown to the HLF monitors at
a meeting on 14 January, and will be refined for their next visit on 26
February.
Alan Borthwick
made preparations for the team’s participation in the joint User
Group/Participating Archives Working Group meeting, arranged for 2
February. He was in discussion with a
contact in the Society of Archivists (Scotland) about the next descriptive
standards training event, to be funded more or less by SCAN, and which will
probably take place in April.
Caroline Brown and Helen Kemp attended a
Scottish Executive seminar for new starts, 25 January.
Joanna Baird completed work on the
‘Emigration’ entry for the ‘Virtual Vault’ on 31 January including the database
of 5000 individuals and a variety of other original sources. Niall Taylor
assisted in the refinement of the database prior to launch.
Addition of the early NAS Parliamentary
Volumes (PA5/1 and PA5/2) to the Stair Society website was completed on 18th
December. NAS staff were informed of the work. It is planned to publicise the new material when the required domain name
has been transferred to the SCAN server in January 2002. Work continued on
selection of emigration material for the website in preparation for addition to
the live site.
Joanna drafted a questionnaire regarding
potential sources for digitisation which was used in
response to those who had expressed an interest in the project. The responses
will be used to plan the workflow over February and March 2002.
John Malden continued work on the editing
of burgh entries in preparation for loading them on the Knowledge Base in 2002.
Digitising of the following series with the Atmel
cameras was completed:
Digitising of the following series with the Atmel
cameras was started:
Digitising of the following series with the Kodak cameras was completed:
Digitising of the following series with the Kodak cameras continues:
* Some of the larger volumes in this series
were captured single page by an Atmel camera
The repaired controller box for one of the Atmel cameras was returned by IKM in Germany and installed
on 10 January. Full production with this camera was resumed straight away. An
estimate for an extra controller box for use in any future breakdown was
received from IKM and an order placed. A replacement for a faulty compressor on
one of the Atmel workstations was also received from
Germany during the month and the faulty one returned.
The millionth page of the testaments
was captured on Monday 14 January, the day of the Annual Review by the HLF.
This milestone was marked by congratulations from the Keeper and special
features on the SCAN website and the NAS intranet. An article also appeared in
the Business Section of the national newspaper Scotland on Sunday on 27
January.
At 31 January there were 683,592 JPEGs on
the server. Of these, 442,889 were double page, and 240,703 were single page,
so the total number of pages captured was 1,126,481
During January all members of staff in the
NAS Conservation branch worked on preparation of the testaments, as a result of
which 81 volumes and 23 bundles of
warrants were completed ready for capture. In order to maintain the
workflow for the cameras as well as meet other conservation commitments for the
NAS it is proposed that NAS conservators will work on the testaments during
alternate months. SCAN conservation staff will continue to work full time on
the testaments
Index/image linking of the Edinburgh
Inventories (SC70/1/1-176) by the GSU volunteers was completed during the
month, and work began on the Edinburgh Wills (SC70/4/1-159). Hazel continued
quality control of index/image linking of the Edinburgh Inventories.
Jane and Margaret continued the linking of
images and index entries (and recording variants of surname and forename
spellings) for the St Andrews Testaments registers (CC20/4). They were joined
by Dr Charles Kelham, who started as a casual member
of staff on 7 January.
Hazel and Margaret attended meetings to
discuss the specification of the new SCAN Testaments website – www.scottishdocuments.com - and started to prepare content for it.
The following visits took place during the
month:
Hazel attended a Scottish Executive
training course on Microsoft Excel on 21 and 22 January.
5 enquiries about wills were received and
answered during the month (four from Historical Search Room colleagues, one
from the SCAN website). One enquiry about digital capture was received from the
Photo Information Officer of Amnesty International.
1.1 |
Prior to commencing the Works the Grantee
will sign and complete all contracts required to enable the Grantee to
fulfill the Approved Purposes including all contracts with contractors and
professional advisers before the work to which such contracts relate is due
to commence. Each such contract shall
provide for the provision of the work or services contracted for on terms
which do not differ to a material extent (save as provided by this Contract)
from the terms (including appropriate provisions for a retention on practical
completion) that would be entered into by a reasonably experienced relevant
employer engaging parties to provide similar work or services for projects of
the size, value, complexity and prominence of the Approved Purposes. Any material divergence from such terms
requires the Approval of NHMF. |
Fulfilled. The Scottish Archive Network
follows all Scottish Executive procurement rules. This has been verified by Mr J Grady, Chief Procurement Officer NAS. |
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Prior to commencing the Works the Grantee
will sign and complete all contracts required to enable the Grantee to
fulfill the Approved Purposes including all contracts with contractors and
professional advisers before the work to which such contracts relate is due
to commence. Each such contract shall
provide for the provision of the work or services contracted for on terms
which do not differ to a material extent (save as provided by this Contract)
from the terms (including appropriate provisions for a retention on practical
completion) that would be entered into by a reasonably experienced relevant
employer engaging parties to provide similar work or services for projects of
the size, value, complexity and prominence of the Approved Purposes. Any material divergence from such terms
requires the Approval of NHMF. |
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1.3 |
NHMF may reduce the Grant by such amount
as it thinks fit up to an amount which bears the same proportion to the
difference between the lowest tender price and the price of the tender accepted
by the Grantee as the Grant bore to the original cost of the Approved
Purposes if NHMF, in its absolute discretion, disagrees with the reason given
by the Grantee for not accepting the lowest tender. |
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1.4 |
The Grantee agrees that it shall only
accept tenders that it believes in good faith will result in the Approved
Purposes being carried out to the standard prescribed by Special Conditions 2
and 9 of this Contract. |
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2. |
The Grantee shall carry out the Works or
shall procure that the Works are carried out in a professional manner in
accordance with currently accepted best practice in the Information
Technology industry. The Grantee will
ensure that best practice or proven and widely adopted standards are applied
especially in the areas of project management, requirements analysis, system
or application, design, testing, documentation, installation and maintenance
and in the area of the preservation of digital materials. |
SCAN believes that it is carrying out the
Works and procuring the Works in a professional manner in accordance with
currently accepted best practice in the Information Technology industry |
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3. |
Prior to commencing the Works the Grantee
shall secure to NHMF’s satisfaction all necessary
planning permissions building consents and statutory approvals. |
Fulfilled |
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4. |
Prior to commencing the Works the Grantee
shall prepare a detailed cost plan for carrying out the Approved Purposes in
a format which has been agreed in advance by NHMF and shall submit the same
to NHMF for Approval. Thereafter the
Grantee shall spend the Grant and other funds provided for the Approved
Purposes only in accordance with the Approved cost plan (“the Cost
Plan”). The Grantee must obtain prior
written Approval for any changes in expenditure which are not in accordance
with the details of the Cost Plan and in particular for movement of funds
between the various elements of the Cost Plan. |
Detailed cost plan submitted and agreed with the HLF. No changes in expenditure have been made
without prior written approval. The budget has been updated following the PID
review and a report detailing the variations form the original budget
estimates has also been submitted for discussion with the HLF at our next
quarterly meeting |
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Prior to commencing the Works the Grantee
shall prepare a draft monthly project report form and a draft monthly cash
flow report form and shall submit the same to NHME for Approval. Thereafter the Grantee shall submit signed
monthly reports in the Approved forms to NHMF until the Approved Purposes
have been fulfilled. |
Signed monthly project reports and
monthly cash flows are submitted to the HLF |
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6. |
Prior to commencing the Works the Grantee
shall submit to NHMF for Approval a revised and updated programme
for the Project. For the avoidance of
doubt the Programme shall contain details of the
works to be carried out at the development stage. The Grantee shall only carry out the Works
in accordance with the Approved programme (“the Programme”) or any modification thereof Approved by NHMF. |
The Project Initiation Document (PID) was
submitted to the HLF as requested. The revised PID has also been submitted
and discussed with the HLF |
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7. |
The Grantee will effect and maintain (or
will procure the effecting and maintenance of) during the Works construction
and project insurance of the project on terms which note the interest of and
are Approved by NHMF. |
Insurance has been obtained and full
details given to the HLF. Any renewal notices will automatically be dealt
with by SCAN |
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8. |
Prior to issuing invitations to tender the
grantee shall prepare a report on the information and communication
technology to be installed at the Property pursuant to the Approved Purposes
and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the report shall
include:- |
An ICT report was prepared and the
tendering process undertaken as agreed. The ICT infrastructure is now in
place and has been paid in full. The next requirement will be to increase the
data storage capacity as the digital imaging workflow increases |
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8.1 |
a feasibility report |
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8.2 |
the specification for the Digital
Deliverables |
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8.3 |
the design of the system which shall in
particular include details of all interactives |
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8.4 |
the proposals for the purchase of network
infrastructure. |
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On receipt of Approval for the report
(“the ICT Report”) the Grantee shall prepare invitations to tender and tender
evaluation criteria for such works and shall submit the same to NHMF for
Approval. Thereafter the Grantee shall
issue invitations to tender in accordance with the Approved tender invitations
and evaluation criteria. |
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The Grantee shall carry out the
information and communication technology works in accordance with currently
accepted best practice in the Information Technology industry. The Grantee will ensure that best practice
or proven and widely adopted standards are applied especially in the areas of
project management, requirements analysis, system or application
specification, design testing, user and system documentation, installation
and maintenance and in the areas of the preservation of digital materials. |
SCAN believes it has fulfilled and is
fulfilling this condition |
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10. |
The Grantee shall submit to NHMF for
Approval details of the standards that the Grantee intends to implement. |
SCAN has submitted to the HLF its draft
cataloguing standards |
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11.1 |
Prior to commencing the Works relating to
the information communication and technology the Grantee shall submit to NHMF
for Approval a report for the safeguarding and enhancement of, and public
access to, the Property including without limitation its proposals for: |
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a) such
testing as may be necessary to demonstrate that the Digital Deliverables and
capable of fulfilling the Approved Purposes |
Schedule of Requirements for the Supply
of Digital Cameras |
October 1999 |
Information and Communications Technology
Requirements |
March 1999 |
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Information and Communications Technology
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February 2000 |
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Test plan submitted for installation of
ICT equipment |
October 2000 |
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Data Capture Specification for Indexes |
November 1999 |
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Website design specification |
November 1999 |
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b) such
evaluation as may be necessary to demonstrate that the Digital Deliverables
are capable of fulfilling the Approved Purposes |
Evaluation and
selection criteria for ICT equipment submitted in evaluation report “SCAN ICT
Requirements Tender Report” |
April 2000 |
Book Cradle
Evaluation |
July 2000 |
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Web Site Tender
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January 2000 |
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Camera
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May 2000 |
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Resolution
Requirements for Testaments |
May 2000 |
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Data Capture
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December 2000 |
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c) the
preservation and security of all data and other material collected or
created in the course of carrying out
the Approved Purposes by the keeping of back-up copies of the Digital Deliverables and
otherwise; |
Weekly backups
and daily incremental backups take place for all SCAN information (excluding
images) |
April 2001 |
Uncompressed TIFF images are written to
DLT and stored locally |
November 2000 (and ongoing) |
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Compressed JPEG images are written to the
Internet Server where a backup is taken weekly |
November 2000 (and ongoing) |
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d) the
form of licence(s) to be used by the Grantee
permitting third party exploitation of the Intellectual Property; |
This was included as part of the contract
negotiations with the Genealogical Society of Utah. The HLF have a copy of
this document July 1999 |
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e) the
form(s) of assignment(s) consent(s) waiver(s) licence(s)
or permission(s) to be used by the Grantee for the securing of third party
rights in the Intellectual Property; |
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f) error
correction, maintenance and updating of the Digital Deliverables |
Data flow diagram of the digitisation process available May 2001 Proposed data flow for the maintenance of
distributed data for the online catalogues available from May 2001 |
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g) user
manuals or instructions and interfaces for the Digital Deliverables and its
use. |
All manuals
received for ICT equipment and standard operation of digital cameras Additional operator manual developed with
GSU for the use of the digital camera. ser manual produced in association
with the GSU for the installation, maintenance and delivery of digital
imaging in June 2000 Guidelines for capture of fonds level descriptions produced by SCAN in September
2000 |
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Thereafter the Grantee shall submit
signed monthly written reports in the form agreed with NHMF and show the
progress made in relation to the above matters. The Grantee must obtain prior written
Approval for any changes in the proposals which are not in accordance with
the Approved reports |
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11.2 |
On receipt of Approval of such proposals
or monthly reports the Grantee shall implement such proposals in carrying out
the Approved Purposes. |
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12.1 |
Prior to commencing the Works relating to
the information communication and technology the Grantee shall submit to NHMF
for Approval a report on the hardware technology to be used with the Digital
Deliverables (“the Hardware”) including without limitation its proposals for: (a) such
testing as may be necessary to demonstrate that the Hardware is capable of fulfilling the Approved Purposes; (b) such
evaluation as may be necessary to demonstrate that the Hardware is capable of fulfilling the Approved
Purposes; (c) error
correction, maintenance and updating of the Hardware; and (d) user
manuals and instructions for the Hardware and its use. Thereafter the Grantee shall submit
signed monthly written reports in the form agreed with NHMF and show the
progress made in relation to the above matters. On receipt of Approval of the said monthly
reports the Grantee shall implement the reports in carrying out the Approved
Purposes. The Grantee must obtain
prior written Approval for any changes in the proposals which are not in
accordance with the Approved reports. |
A presentation
and report covering the entire ICT requirements for the project was given |
May 2000 |
Information and
Communications Technology Requirements |
March 1999 |
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Communications Technology Tender Document |
February 2000 |
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Test plan
submitted for installation of ICT equipment |
October 2000 |
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Data Capture
Specification for Indexes |
November 1999 |
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12.2 |
On receipt of Approval of such proposals
or monthly reports the Grantee shall implement such proposals in carrying out
the Approved Purposes. |
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13. |
The Grantee shall enter into a deposit
agreement with a third party Approved by NHMF for all Digital Deliverables
and any associated or necessary software and applications and shall
thereafter deposit escrow copies of the said Digital Deliverables on a basis
to be agreed with NHMF. |
Escrow discussed
for deposit of digital images. SCAN has a contract clause with GSU to provide
mutual restore and backup of digital images |
Early
discussions held with NCC Follow Up
Required |
14. |
The Grantee shall ensure that all
applications and software necessary to access use or present the digital
deliverables are transferable to a third party. |
Escrow discussed
for deposit of any software packages |
Early
discussions held with NCC Follow Up
Required |
15 |
The Grantee agrees that it shall take all
reasonable steps to mitigate to NHMF’s satisfaction
the amount of VAT payable upon, or to recover the VAT payable upon, or to
recover the VAT attributable to, the cost of fulfilling the Approved
Purposes. The Grant shall be reduced
by an amount which bears the same proportion to the VAT not payable or
recovered as the Grant, prior to such decrease, bore to the original costs of
the Approved Purposes. |
SCAN has fulfilled this condition: VAT is fully recovered. |
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At the end of Year 1 the Grantee is to produce a policy statement to support the extensibility of membership of Scottish Archive Network Limited with no financial implications. |
SCAN supports the extensibility of
membership of the Scottish Archive Network with no financial implications.
Currently there is an interest shown by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Glasgow Archives for inclusion |
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The Grantee will effect and maintain (or
will procure the effecting and maintenance of) during the Works construction
and project insurance for the Project on terms which note the interest of and
are Approved by NHMF. |
SCAN has fulfilled this condition |
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18 |
The documents required to be submitted or
provided to NHMF under these special conditions, are required to be submitted
or provided by the Grantee only for NHMF’s own
purposes in connection with the Grant and NHMF’s
approval or acceptance of such documents cannot be taken as approval or
acceptance for any other purpose. |
This is accepted by SCAN |
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19. [Clause
to go in here annexing contracts between a Scottish Archive Network Ltd and
others] |
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20 |
The Grantee shall take account of any
representations which NHMF may make with regard to the carrying out of the
Approved Purposes in accordance with the Programme,
Design, specification, Cost Plan, ICT Report and the contracts referred to in
special conditions 1.1. In particular
the Grantee shall take account of any representations which NHMF may make
prior to the issue of a certificate of practical completion of the Works and
shall pass such representations on to the person authorised
to sign a certificate of practical completion. |
This is accepted by SCAN |
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Without prejudice to the generality of
Clause 13.2 of this Contract NHMF may at any time appoint by notice in
writing to the Grantee a third party (“the Lead Monitor”) to monitor the
progress of the Approved Purposes and additional monitors to advise on
specialist matters arising from the implementations regarding the Approved
Purposes the Grantee shall take such reasonable steps as may be necessary to
comply with the recommendations. |
This is accepted by SCAN |
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22 |
Prior to commencing the Works the Grantee
shall secure to the satisfaction of NHMF all the additional funding required
to complete the Approved Purposes. |
The additional funding required by the
HLF was secured. Budget projections supplied to HLF in March 2001 indicate
that the project will complete within budget and with the agreed percentage
of partnership funding |
Project Board – Thomas Thomson House, 16/01/02 @ 16.00
Present: R Mildren (Chair), G Mackenzie, P Anderson, S Low (Minute Taker)
Action Point Summary [RM=8, GM=4, PA=2, SL=11]
Agenda Item |
Outcome |
Action Officer |
Action By |
Action Completed |
Progress Review |
1.0 Minutes of Prev Meeting |
The previous minutes were approved and accepted. |
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2.0 HLF Annual Review |
It was noted that the HLF Annual Review had taken place on 14/01/02. It was further noted that the request to amend the Grant Expiry Date was contingent upon the project submitting a robust plan for the completion of the TFLA work to the HLF. It was agreed to construct a plan, detailing specified project inputs and required outputs. It was also agreed to draw up a profile analysis for each archive detailing the quality and extent of their collections. It was agreed to present the revised work-plan at the HLF Quarterly Meeting on 18/04/01.Rob to liaise with Alan to construct. It was noted that Ann Laird could provide contacts, who might be willing to contribute towards the development of educational resources based on web site content. Rob to discuss with Robin and Joanna. It was emphasized that the offer of CALM training should be extended to those archives that had already procured this system. It was agreed that this would happen be default as all participating archives would be invited to any organized training event. It was noted that the budget recommendations had been approved and accepted. It was noted that the HLF had approved the project’s proposal to extend the date range for digitizing Testaments for the period 1876-1885. It was agreed that, in light of the HLF’s request to have 6 weekly monitoring meetings, the project board should convene on the same day for the foreseeable future |
RM RM |
11/04/02 11/04/02 |
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3.0 Review of Work Plans 2.1 On-Line Catalogues 2.1.1 Review of AP’s AP 2.5 |
It was confirmed that the licensing agreement had been discussed at the HLF Annual Review. It was agreed that this would be explored in more detail and should form part of the project’s overall marketing strategy. It was also agreed that this item would be discussed at the next SCAN marketing meeting to be held on 18-01-02. Stuart to add to agenda. |
SL |
17/01/02 |
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AP 2.7 |
It was confirmed that specific team members had now been allocated to individual archives in a relationship manager role. |
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AP 2.8 |
It was noted that the HLF had expressed concern over the project’s proposal that local archivists be employed directly by participating archives. The concerns were mainly based around the consistency of cataloguing standards and the element of control, which SCAN, would retain in this context. It was noted that the HLF would, however, consider individual cases on merit. It was agreed that this matter would be raised at the joint meeting of the participating archives and user group on 02/02/02. |
RM |
02/02/02 |
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AP 2.10 |
It was noted that Peter had, as yet, to arrange a joint meeting between Alan Borthwick and John Shaw to draw up a plan for completing the NAS TFLA’s. |
PA |
31/01/02 |
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2.1.2 New P/Archive |
It was confirmed that the Archdiocese of Glasgow’s Catholic Archives had formally joined the project, bringing the total number of participating archives to 51. |
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2.2 Testaments 2.2.1 Review of AP’s AP 2.2.3 |
It was confirmed that Morse had now reconfigured the server to minimize the risk of a repeat failure. |
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2.2.2 Milestones |
It was confirmed that the 1 millionth page had been captured on Monday 14th January. |
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2.2.3 Controller Box |
It was noted that a controller box on one of the cameras had failed, although this had now been repaired. It was also noted that IKM had been asked to quote to supply an additional controller box, which could be used in the event of a repeat failure. |
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2.2.4 Digitisation Programme |
It was confirmed that the HLF had agreed to extending the range of the Testaments digitizing programme to include Testaments for the period 1876 – 1885. |
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2.3 Internet Resources 2.3.1 Review of AP’s AP 2.14 |
It was confirmed that the educational
aspects of the website had been discussed with the HLF at the Annual Review. (See
Minutes of HLF Annual Review 14/01/02, Point 2.7, for full discussion). It was also confirmed that Stuart had asked Margaret McBryde to contact Joanna regarding the quarterly meeting of Institutional Education Officers. |
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AP 2.3.2 (Stair Society) |
It was confirmed that the domain name for the Stair Society had now been registered. Once confirmation of registration was received an invoice will be raised for the full cost of the work undertaken. |
SL |
21/01/02 |
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2.3.2 Conservation Assess |
It was noted that there appeared to be inconsistency in the conservation assessment process, as material for digital imaging required assessment while material for photocopying did not. It was felt that this might lead to delays within the imaging element of the project. It was agreed to monitor the situation and raise the subject with Linda Ramsay if necessary. |
GM/RM |
Ongoing |
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3.0 Procurement 3.1 Review of AP’s AP 4.1 (Data Storage) |
It was confirmed that the extra data storage had been procured and installed. |
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AP2.11 (Cat Software) |
It was noted that the NAS had not yet signed the contract for CALM, although this should be completed by the end of the month. GM to confirm when this has been done. (See Minutes of HLF Annual Review 14/01/02, Point 2.5, for full discussion). |
GM |
31/01/02 |
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4.0 Staffing 4.1 Review of AP’s AP 5.1 (Conservation)
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It was noted that Linda Ramsay had, as yet, to provide an estimate of the costs of providing conservation services to the project. Rob to follow up. It was confirmed that the remaining budget for additional conservation resource had been assessed at £13,260. |
RM |
31/01/01 |
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AP 5.2 (Twilight Shift) |
It was noted that given the assurances of data transfer compatibility for CALM 2000 and the high levels of accuracy in the index-linking, it was no longer necessary to consider the introduction of a casual twilight shift at this time. It was noted that this avenue could be re-opened, if required, to address the issue of running commercial digitizing projects. |
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4.2 Casual Staffing |
It was confirmed that Charles Kelham had joined the Testaments team on a temporary curatorial contract from January 7th 2002. |
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5.0 Admin & Finance 5.1 Review of AP’s AP 2.6 |
It was confirmed that the Grant Expiry Date had been discussed at the HLF Annual Review. (See Point 2 above). |
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AP 2.15 |
It was confirmed that a prototype admin website had been developed and presented at the HLF Annual Review. It was noted that they were pleased with the site as demonstrated and it was agreed that a few additions would be made as per the Minutes of HLF Annual Review 14/01/02, Point 2.10. It was agreed that Stuart would liaise with Bill to implement. |
SL |
20/02/01 |
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AP 2.17 |
It was noted that asset depreciation would only need to be considered if the HLF were to request the return of any project equipment. |
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AP 2.18 |
It was noted that a preliminary paper regarding SCAN/NAS post-project had been tabled at the HLF Annual Review. It was noted that more investigative work required to be undertaken. It was agreed that the preliminary paper would be reconditioned as appropriate and presented to the HLF at a future meeting around July 2002. |
RM/GM |
30/06/02 |
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AP 6.1 (D/Down) |
It was noted that Drawdown 31 had been submitted w/c 07/01/02 and that Drawdown 32 would be submitted by 25/01/02. |
SL |
25/01/02 |
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AP 6.2 (Rev of D/D %) |
It was confirmed that the Advance Drawdown calculations had been reviewed. It was noted that the HLF were eligible to recover a further £14,089.98 and that correspondence had been sent to them to that effect. It was further noted that this figure had been agreed at the HLF Annual Review and the necessary adjustment would be made to Drawdown No 31. Stuart to confirm that the adjustment is made. |
SL |
31/01/02 |
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AP 6.3 (Accounts) |
It was noted that Stuart had contacted Jim Grady regarding a letter of confirmation for McCabe’s, although it did, as yet, appear to have been sent. Stuart to follow up with Jim Grady. |
SL |
18/01/02 |
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AP 6.4 Budget Review |
It was confirmed that an amended budget had been tabled at the HLF Annual Review to reflect the developing project requirements and that the budget recommendations had been accepted. |
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AP6.5 (Insurance) |
It was noted that the computer insurance proposal form had been completed and returned to Norwich Union. |
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6.0 Part Archives Meeting 6.1 Review of AP’s AP 7.2 (IT Equip) |
It was noted that 11 applications had now been approved to place IT equipment into participating archives under phase 2 of this exercise. Stuart to liaise with participating archives regarding procurement. A draft of the copy intended for dissemination through both UK List Serve and ScotArc List Serve was tabled for comment and review. It was agreed that the CALM paragraph be moved to the top of the text and that it should be disseminated once the CALM deal had been officially concluded. |
SL SL |
Ongoing 31/01/02 |
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AP 7.3 (Narrative Report) |
It was confirmed that the HLF Narrative report would be available on the Admin & Finance website from 26/02/02. |
SL |
25/02/02 |
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AP6.2 (SCAN Training) |
It was noted that Alan had spoken to Rachael Third (SoA) regarding a standards training course, including the use of CALM 2000. It was proposed that such a course would not take place until after Easter. It was agreed to review the position at the end of March. |
RM/AB |
31/03/02 |
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6.2 Next Meeting |
It was confirmed that the next joint meeting of the Participating Archives Working Group & the SCAN User Group would take place on 02/02/02 at TTH between 10.30 and 13.00. |
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7.0 User Group Meeting 7.1 Review of AP’s |
No AP’s for review. |
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7.2 Date of Next Meeting |
As Point 6.2 above. |
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8.0 NANURG Meeting 8.1 Review of AP’s 8.1.1 AP 2.13 |
It was confirmed that a composite evaluation report had been compiled and tabled at the HLF Annual Review. It was noted that SCAN had emerged favorably from the evaluation process. It was also agreed that the composite report be disseminated to the participating archives and the user group for information, in advance of the final report which should be available by the end of February 2002. |
SL |
31/01/02 |
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8.2 Scottish Evaluation Report |
It was confirmed that an invoice for £909.75 had now been sent to Re:source for recovery of the expenses associated with the Scottish Evaluation Event. |
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9.0 Marketing & Publicity 9.1 Review of AP’s AP 2.3 |
It was noted that Peter was still to arrange a meeting with Rob to discuss the revised charging structure for copies of NAS documents. |
PA |
31/01/02 |
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AP 2.4 |
It was confirmed that the SCAN marketing plan had been tabled at the HLF Annual Review. (See Minutes of HLF Annual Review 14/01/02, Point 2.1, for full discussion). |
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AP 9.2 (Marketing Plan) AP 9.3 (Launch Events) |
It was confirmed that both of these topics would be discussed in more detail at the next marketing meeting to be held on 18/01/02. |
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9.2 Testaments Launch Event 9.2.1 E-enabling 9.3 OnLine Cats Launch |
It was noted that all points relating to the marketing of SCAN products and services would be the subject of detailed review to be held at the next marketing meeting on 18/01/02. It was confirmed that Joanna was currently inputting a list of marketing tasks into MS Project, which would be used as a catalyst for directing discussion and allocating responsibilities at this meeting. It was noted that a full report on the marketing strategy adopted would be tabled for discussion at the next project board. |
SL/RM |
25/02/02 |
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10.0 AOCB |
No other business. |
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11.0 Date of Next Proj
Board |
Tuesday 26th February 2002 @ 10.00 – TTH |
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