The MONK project has "cells" (monks live in cells...) that are responsible for different parts of MONK. Each cell is organized around a distinct role in the project, and those roles, as much as possible, are designed in such a way as to minimize contingencies across the cells but also to maximize communication--both within and across cells. Each cell also needs to have a chair, who is responsible for assigning tasks within the cell and for making sure that the members of the cell communicate regularly and meet their deadlines. The chair of each cell will also be part of the SuperCell and as such is also responsible for communicating outward to the rest of the project, in particular by coordinating as necessary with the chairs of other cells.
The SuperCell: composed of the chair of each of the cells listed below, responsible for horizontal coordination of systems design. Attends to overall coordination of documentation and specifications, and oversees project-management infrastructure.
Data-Analytics Cell. This cell merges the previously separate roles of the Data and Analytics. It is responsible for a range of activities that extend from curatorial/bibliographical tasks through linguistic annotation to the design and maintenance of the data stores (databases, indices, etc.) that support the operations of MONK. It is also responsible for data analytics, which includes exploratory data analysis, text mining, and more generally, quantitative and statistical text analysis.
Uses and Users Cell: responsible for developing new things to do with MONK data, new uses for things we've already done, and putting together feature requests for tools we might build on top of MONK.
Interface Cell: responsible for user-interface design, implementation, evaluation. Includes data visualization.
Collaboration Cell: Responsible for thinking about effective social software and feature requests to support collaboration, both within the MONK project and in the larger community, including its relationship to other social software tools (e.g., Zotero) and other digital humanities venues (e.g., TAPoR). Also other evangelical duties and functions, including MONK's public Web presence.
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Moved redundant cells to the Trash page. 
Posted by amitku at Feb 28, 2007 10:45
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