Personnel considerations

What is your time-frame?

• Do you need long-term staff?
• Short-term staff?
• Skilled staff?

What skills are needed?

• Scanning
• Data input
• Data management
• Programming
• Developing new code; maintaining existing code
• Testing applications – expert users
• Evaluating results

Types of personnel

• Undergraduates, graduates, post-docs
• Independent contractors
• IT staff
• Expert users
• Volunteers

Finding help?

• Hiring directly
  • How can you evaluate applicants if you don't have skills?
  • Where do you find an applicant pool?
  • Does your institution have a computer science department?
  • Do you need skilled or unskilled workers, coders or data input, testers, etc.?
• Working with a company
  • Where do you find and evaluate a company?
    • Getting recommendations
    • Evaluating existing work
    • Evaluating pricing and availability
• Are there institutional resources available?
  • How capable and available are your:
    • IT staff
    • Library staff
    • DH program staff
• Do you have to do competitive bidding?

Ownership

• Are there legal or financial imitations?
• Does it need to be open source? or can you use proprietary code?
• Who has the rights to the code? the data?

Other issues

• People to test software
• Can can you pool resources with other projects, other institutions?