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Request for Proposals

The objective of this RFP is to solicit proposals to be the Project Manager ("PM") of the PBCore 2.0 Development more specifically described below. The Project Manager, working in close consultation with CPB over a period of 12 months, will recommend and initiate development of an operational infrastructure including an organizational and legal structure, resource group, and advisory board; develop a medium and long-term sustainable operating model; gather requirements from the user community including producers, archivists, content mangers and vendors, oversee the update and revision of the current PBCore version 1.2 to version 2.0, and define and establish processes for future application development; outreach to stations, producers and related organizations to formally establish PBCore as the Public Broadcasting metadata standard to facilitate the description, preservation and sharing of content efficiently within and across organization and continue as a cornerstone of collaboration with other international standards; re-design and update PBCore website and create a PBCore on-line community; and provide on-going training and technical support to the user community on the functionality, structure, implementation and use of PBCore 2.0. The Project Manager will report directly to CPB's Vice President of Digital Media Strategy.