The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) project has involved high levels of collaborative interaction. No attempt to describe these interactions in terms of a Fordian division of labour – as in the table below – can ever hope to capture or weigh the full complexity of the tasks, responsibilities and consultation involved. The table does, however, provide a snapshot indication of the main and multiple roles played by all the key participants, especially when read in conjunction with the ‘Project History’ under the ‘Credits’ tab.
| Responsible person | In consultation with | Checking | |
| Principal Investigator (Project management and co-ordination) | Simon Burrows | Project Management Board members | n/a |
| Initial concept (2004-6) | Simon Burrows | n/a | n/a |
| Pilot project (March 2006) | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | n/a | n/a |
| Project Design and Methodologies | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | n/a | n/a |
| AHRC grant application | Simon Burrows | Mark Curran, Jonathan Topham, Sarah Kattau | Various colleagues |
| AHRC Grant technical appendix | Sarah Kattau and Peter Millican | Simon Burrows | Simon Burrows & various colleagues |
| Project Research Fellow (2007-2011) | Mark Curran | n/a | n/a |
| External Project Board Member | Prof. David Adams, University of Manchester | n/a | n/a |
| Appointed Project Management Board Members | Simon Dixon (2007-8); Russell Goulbourne (2008-12); Jonathan Topham (2007-12); Peter Millican (2007-12) | n/a | n/a |
| Database design | Sarah Kattau | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | |
| Data editor design (data entry system) | Sarah Kattau | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | n/a |
| Keyword editor design (data entry for keywords and Parisian system) | Amyas Merivale | Simon Burrows | n/a |
| Data interface design – first phase | Amyas Merivale | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | n/a |
| Data interface design – second phase | Vincent Hiribarren | Simon Burrows, Mark Curran and Amyas Merivale | n/a |
| GIS and map design and implementation | Vincent Hiribarren | Simon Burrows | n/a |
| Project Keyword system | Simon Burrows | Mark Curran | n/a |
| Project version of Parisian categorisation system | Mark Curran | Simon Burrows | n/a |
| Options menu concepts | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | n/a | n/a |
| Options menu implementation (data preparation) | Simon Burrows | Amyas Merivale | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran |
| Options menu implementation (technical aspects) | Amyas Merivale | Simon Burrows | n/a |
| Primary research, data entry, interpretation and collating bibliographic data | Mark Curran | n/a | Simon Burrows and Peter Burrows. |
| Further research, data entry, interpretation and collating – bibliographic data (problem works, esp. non-French titles) | Simon Burrows | Mark Curran, Moritz Föllmer, Ian Moxon, Rhiannon Daniels, Anthony Wright | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran |
| Data entry and interpretation –transaction (events) data | Mark Curran | n/a | Mark Curran. Samples of this data were also double-checked by Simon Burrows; Jeffry Freedman; and Andrew Brown. |
| Data entry and interpretation – client data | Mark Curran | n/a | Mark Curran, Simon Burrows and Peter Burrows |
| Research, data entry and interpretation – categorisation | Simon Burrows | Mark Curran | Simon Burrows |
| Data enrichment, general notes and structures – place data | Simon Burrows | n/a | Simon Burrows and Vincent Hiribarren |
| Place locations and co-ordinate data | Mark Curran, Simon Burrows, Vincent Hiribarren | n/a | Simon Burrows and Vincent Hiribarren |
| Data entry (markers of illegality data) | Mark Curran | Simon Burrows | Simon Burrows |
| Research and data entry higher education (place notes field) | Vincent Hiribarren | Simon Burrows | n/a |
| Data enrichment and structures – client professional data | Simon Burrows | Mark Curran | Simon Burrows |
| Interface testing | Simon Burrows, Mark Curran, Vincent Hiribarren | David Adams, Miscellaneous external users | n/a |
| Visualisations and Mapping | Vincent Hiribarren | Simon Burrows, Amyas Merivale | Simon Burrows and Vincent Hiribarren |
| Final Editing | Simon Burrows and Vincent Hiribarren | Mark Curran | n/a |
| Instructional walk-through videos | Simon Burrows (script and narration); Vincent Hiribarren (technical and editing) | n/a | Simon Burrows and Vincent Hiribarren |
| Instructional materials and guides under Help and Resources menu | Simon Burrows, Amyas Merivale, Vincent Hiribarren | n/a | n/a |
| Acknowledgments and Credits | Simon Burrows | Project team | Project team |
| Abbreviations and List of Manuscripts | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | n/a | Vincent Hiribarren |
| Website management | Sarah Kattau, Amyas Merivale and Vincent Hiribarren | Simon Burrows | n/a |
| Website written content / project blog | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | n/a | n/a |
| External Liaison with other Digital Humanities projects | Mark Curran | Simon Burrows, Amyas Merivale and Vincent Hiribarren | n/a |
| Print outputs | Simon Burrows and Mark Curran | n/a | n/a |
| Database support at Leeds (2012-2013) | Vincent Hiribarren | Simon Burrows | n/a |
| Transfer of website and database to UWS (2013-2014) | Vincent Hiribarren, Andrew Leahy and Jason Ensor | Simon Burrows and Peter Sefton | Simon Burrows and Jason Ensor |
Document created by Simon Burrows, 8 June 2012.
[Updated 28 January 2014]