The UMDL project has a continually evolving set of teams which interact to create the production system and do relevant research. Members of all of these teams meet on the first Friday of each month to report progress, discuss important issues, and get updates on events and activities of the project.

Team	Members
Advanced User Interface Group This team is primarily concerned with a state-of-the-art user centered design digital library. Their research are long term and results will be folded into the production system. Meetings: Tuesdays, 2:30-4:30 pm, Connector Conference Room, School of Information	George Furnas (Leader) Gene Alloway Bill Aylesworth Stephen Markel Mike Monan Sam Rauch James Reed Raven Wallace Xiaolong Zhang
Collection Search and Retrieval (ColSR) This team is focused on search and retrieval functions related to the overall digital library collection. Meetings: Tuesdays, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Room 405, School of Information	Karen Drabenstott (Leader) Bill Aylesworth Olivia Frost John Price-Wilkin Amy Warner
Intellectual Property and Economic Issues (IPE) This team is working on commerce mechanisms, intellectual property license management, agent negotiation protocols, and resource allocation issues for the UMDL. Meetings: ?	Mike Wellman (Leader) Bill Birmingham, College of Engineering and School of Information John Cheng Colin Day, University Press Karen Hunter, Elsevier (External Participant) Wendy Lougee, University Library Jeffrey MacKie-Mason Tracy Mullen Ann Okerson, Yale University (External Participant) Sunju Park Bill Walsh Kimberly White Katherine Willis, Information Technology Division, College of Engineering and School of Information
Ontology Definition and Registry The ontology contains formal definitions of digital library content, services, and licenses. The registry includes metadata to describe collections and agents that is based on the ontology. Meetings: ?	Gene Alloway (Leader) Judy Ahronheim Kevin Butterfield Peter Weinstein
Operating Committee This team is comprised of team leaders from all areas. Meetings: Wednesdays, 9:00-10:30AM, Connector Conference Room, School of Information	Dan Atkins (Leader) Gene Alloway Bill Birmingham Karen Drabenstott Ed Durfee Nathan Eriksen Randy Frank George Furnas JoAnne Kerr Dan Kiskis Wendy Lougee Elke Rundensteiner Elliot Soloway Mike Wellman Katherine Willis
Service-Market Society (SMS) This team is the result of the integration of the former Architecture and Conspectus Search and Retrieval Groups. Meetings: Wednesday, 1:30 - 2:30 pm Connector Conference Room, School of Information	Bill Birmingham (Co-Leader) Ed Durfee (Co-Leader) Anil Arora, Testbed Construction Eric Glover Bill Walsh Jeff MacKie-Mason Tracy Mullen Ani Nica Sun Park José Vidal Peter Weinstein
Use and Evaluation in Education This team is responsible for deployment and evaluation of the production system in high schools and public libraries. Meetings: Fridays, 10:00-11:00AM, ATL Large Conference Room	Elliot Soloway (Leader, High Schools) Nathan Bos Heather Eccleston Joseph Hoffman Joe Krajcik Jeff Kupperman Raven Wallace
User Interface Design and Evaluation This team is primarily concerned with the design of the current production system. Meetings: ?	Karen Drabenstott (Co-Leader) Elliot Soloway (Co-Leader) Bill Aylesworth Ken Alexander Nathan Bos Joseph Krajcik Steve Kirk Daniel Kiskis Greg Peters David Richardson Ofer Ronen Raven Wallace
Other These people are also involved in various ways.	Ken Alexander, School of Information Joan Durrance, School of Information Tom Finholt, Department of Psychology Fritz Freiheit College of Engineering (Student) Kathleen Hamel, School of Information (Student) Peter Joh, College of Engineering (Student) Jon Margerum-Leys, School of Education Nancy Scala, College of Engineering (Student) Spencer Thomas, School of Information Ioanna Vekiri, School of Education