# Organisational Structure

## Workpackages

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Workpackage Structure
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1. **WP 8: Project Management and Coordination Office:** Handling overarching project management, quality assurance, coordination, and innovation management.

2. **WP 7: Dissemination & Exploitation:** Centered on communication, training, and financial matters.

3. **WP 6: Open Web Search Ecosystem:** Focusing on ethics, societal aspects, ecosystem governance, and legal concerns.

4. **WP 5: Federated Data Infrastructure:** Covers storage, computing, registry, data management, validation, and more.

5. **WP 4: Search Applications and User Experience:** Concentrates on user-centric search applications, including mobile search, recommendation systems, and privacy.

6. **WP 3: Search Architectures and Services:** Emphasizes search engines, federated search hubs, and conversational search systems.

7. **WP 2: Index Generation & Content Analysis:** Encompasses processes like content analysis, geocoding, knowledge representation, and more.

8. **WP1: Resource Efficient Collaborative Crawling:** Deals with crawler coordination, website indexing, console operations, and algorithmic tasks.

9. **Third Party Contributions:** The framework also integrates third-party inputs in areas like applications, services, index generation, and data gathering.



## Roadmap

1. **Project Setup (M1 to M3-4):** Initial stages involve setting up management tools, website, and defining a DEC strategy.
  
2. **Operational Prerequisites (M6):** These focus on data requirements, finalizing submission systems, and ensuring the grant submission system is ready.

3. **Project Milestones:** 
    - First components by M12 include a Crawler coordination, a Vertical Search Engine Definition, and Search Model Concepts.
    - Infrastructure developments are set for M12 and M19, with a pilot data infrastructure launch by M12.
    - Several deliverables across M18 to M36 focus on pipelines, infrastructure, ecosystem and exploitation, ending with a final search application evaluation report by M36.

4. **Review Meetings:** A significant review meeting is planned for M18.

5. **Completion Indicators:** The roadmap is punctuated with completion indicators like Y1 Done, Y2 Done Prototypes, and finally, 'DONE' by M36.



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Milestones and Deliverables
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