Appendix A: Project Complexity Matrix
Complexity Issues	Measures of Complexity by Topic
	Women & Women’s Issues	Abolitionist Movement	Campus Newspapers
Number of Participating Institutions	15+	4-10	10-15
Readiness of Materials for Digitization	Varies-Needs further investigation	Tufts-Not Ready UMass-Amherst, Wellesley, Williams– Ready	Varies-Needs further investigation
Formats	2 formats; Text and image (pamphlets, books, manuscripts, photographs, realia)	2 formats; text and image (pamphlets, books, manuscripts)	2 formats; text and image (newspapers)
Scope	Early 19^th-century to Present Day	18^th-19^th Centuries	1955-1975
Size	Varies-Needs further investigation	Varies-Needs further investigation	Mostly oversize; varies
Preservation	Needs further investigation	Needs further investigation	Varies
Intellectual Property Rights/Risk Management	Medium to high risk	Low risk	Low risk
Technology and Standards	JPEG2000, OCR, TEI, METS, Qualified Dublin Core, XML, page turning application, high-end scanning equipment	JPEG2000, OCR, TEI, METS, XML, page turning application, high-end scanning equipment	OCR, TEI, METS, XML, page turning application, high-end scanning equipment
Targeted Audiences	Undergraduates and graduates, faculty/staff, historians, independent researchers, K-12	Undergraduates and graduates, faculty/staff, historians, independent researchers, K-12	Alumni, undergraduates and graduates, faculty/staff, historians, independent researchers, K-12
Existing Digital Collections	-Women Working, 1870-1930 [Harvard University] -Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 [SUNY Binghamton]	-In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience [NYPL] -Making of America and “I will be heard!” Abolitionism in America [Cornell University] -American Slave Narratives [University of Virginia]	-The Sixities Project [University of Arizona and University of Virginia] -Illinois Institute of Technology's Newspaper Project, 1928-1980 [IIT]