C8.4.5 - Opening up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana

1 INTRODUCTION
WP7 and WP8 are developing an outreach strategy to attract associated partners to the OpenUp! project.
One part of this is to provide information to possible new partners, which help them understand the aims
and means of the project and assist in dealing with the organisational steps and setting up the technological
requirements to become an associated partner.
2 GENERAL INFORMATION FOR NEW PROVIDERS
The new providers information package consists of information and documents that have been produced or
updated for the purpose of giving (potential) new providers the most important information they need. The
package is a set of interlinked websites that provide information and link to documents. The main entry page
is accessible on the Helpdesk Homepage or at http://openup.helpdesk.africamuseum.be/AssociatedPartners
There the new/potential content provider can find (see Fig. 1):
- How to become an OpenUp! Associated Partner,
- What benefits the project offers to its content providers,
- What the criteria are to become an OpenUp! Associated Partner.
That information is taken from D19/ C7.3.4 Standard procedure for associated partners operational, as well
as C7.3.1 List of criteria and benefits to become Open Up! associated partners established. For more
information we re-used the categories of user groups from D11 /C7.2.3 Enriched + checked existing
documentation in orig. language (website). We provide dedicated access to specific documentation for each
of the user groups:
Scientists 1
Collections Managers, Technicians 2
PR Department, Communication, Education 3
Legal Department, Legal Advisor 4
Direction, Policy Makers 5
1 http://openup.helpdesk.africamuseum.be/scientists
2 http://openup.helpdesk.africamuseum.be/collections_managers_technicians
3 http://openup.helpdesk.africamuseum.be/pr_comm_edu
4 http://openup.helpdesk.africamuseum.be/legal_department
5 http://openup.helpdesk.africamuseum.be/direction_policy
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