This post should attempt to forecast both the risks or hurdles that might arise as the project progresses as well as how the project will manage sucess if its outputs become extremely popular?
Risk Analysis
|
Risk |
Probability (1-5) |
Severity (1-5) |
Score (P x S) |
Action to Prevent/Manage Risk |
| Staffing |
2 |
3 |
6 |
Secure by contract lock-in. Ensuring knowledge is continually disseminated amongst those involved. Rapid project life-cycle reduces likelihood of ill effects due to staff departure |
| Community buy-in |
2 |
3 |
6 |
Engagement with community via existing digital humanities network and geospatial semantic web communities; consultation with researchers on quality of work; dissemination through geographic information retrieval community workshops. |
| Technical |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Testing quality of extracted names against historic census data applied by UKDA. Evaluating other techniques to find and resolve names. |
| Software |
2 |
2 |
6 |
Continue consultation with JISC OSSWatch. Building on experiences and outputs from the GeoDigRef project and maintenance taken into account as support work on the Unlock service. |