P2Rx News Project Proposal
Austin Meeting Update - February 2003
Committee: Andy Bray, Laura Estes, Chris Wiley, Rick Yoder
Background/Opportunity:
All but one of the P2Rx centers develop news, both as a service
to center users and as one element of marketing outreach. At least
one of the centers allows NPPR to capture story summaries and to
post them on the NPPR site as part of a news publication web page.
A distributed collection and publication effort offers an opportunity
for P2Rx to collaborate in order to build a larger, more diverse
news publication through combining multiple efforts and/or to reduce
duplicative work currently taking place when two centers refer to
the same story.
Project Description:
Planning the development of a news service continues.
The users and functionality are described more fully in the attached
document. Briefly, the news project is intended to create a news
collection and story distribution software application that would:
- Allow for a centralized or shared collection of P2 stories developed
by P2Rx centers,
- Allow existing P2Rx center story development staff to publish
stories from that collection of story summaries already written
by peer P2 editors, and
- Allow for increased distribution of story developed/identified
by centers to more audiences.
Work ELements (1-6 current, 7-11 future):
- Determine scope of existing news production within P2Rx (completed).
- Define scope of P2 news collection ( Purpose above & Publication
Policy attached).
- Describe desired functionality of a P2 news service (attached).
- Review existing data standards for news items, develop and pass
new data standards as necessary.
- Invite comments on P2 news data scope, functionality, and data
standard.
- User feedback to prioritize proposed publication functionality
choices.
- Offer solicitation/RFP.
- Construct news data collection and distribution application.
- Train users, divide news collection tasks among Centers choosing
to develop news
- Collect and publish news
- Identify sources and opportunities to build partnerships with
others who have similar or complimentary goals.
Proposed Project Deliverables for 2004 and Estimated Resources
Required:
Suggest work plan elements 7-10. For those on the committee/workgroup,
~ 40 hours to finalize attributes and functionality yet this year.
A primary author will need ~ 20 hours to draft and administer an
RFP. Cost of the coding unknown as yet < $5,000? Standard development
will take a primary author ~ 20 hours to draft and administer.
Individual center tasks once the application is in place will be
<10 hours/center of coding to install and training to operate.
Other work distribution < 5 hours/center. Story sourcing and
publication once the application is in place will be up to the centers,
from 0.05-0.25 FTE.
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