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Requirements for joining of new partners
The OASIS Consortium has agreed on the following modes of acceptance for new partners, which will be preceded by an application process.
In principle there will be a distinction between new OASIS → members, who only want to make their content available via the OASIS Platform, and full → partners, who may join with the same voting rights as the six founding partners. These full partners may also host the middleware and vote on future issues concerning the platform.
Due to the financial dependencies within the cultural sector and potential unforeseen upheavals it seems sensible to have the option of accepting new full partners. Currently the responsibility lies mostly with the HfG, which hosts the server and will be acting as coordinating partner for future general OASIS enquiries, as well as for institutions wanting to join as new members. The HfG will communicate issues to all partners, which concern them.
Admission procedures
Interested parties are to inform the host of the middleware and OASIS main contact in writing - currently this is the HfG. The communication path is described on the OASIS website. The project coordinator subsequently informs all other OASIS Partners. The integration of the applicant is decided upon via democratic voting
The reaction time of the OASIS Partners' vote on the application is 4 weeks. Within those the considerations and discussions may take place. A quick process is desired, as it is expected that a communication with the applicant has been entered into before this formal written application has been submitted, so the latter should be easily decided upon.
A form for the application of new members and partners is being designed at the moment and checked by legal advisors.
In general new applicants must provide details about their institution, and the manner, extent and technical requirements of their content.
The form will ask for the following information:
- an abstract of the applying institution in English
- the content of the collection and its characterisation
- Type of content sorted by genre and media formats (videos, installations, documentation etc.)
- amount of content
- semantic conditioning: how is the content entered into the database
- technical condition (how does the database work, how is streaming content embedded
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