1.2 - Devise Metrics to measure progress and impact of construction

The aim of this deliverable is to provide project-wide metrics to track the progress and impact of BioMedBridges. There are different areas in the project that offer themselves to performance measurement via different, specific types of metrics: Grant fulfillment, Technical metrics (data and services, tools, standards), Knowledge output and dissemination, Outreach and inreach, and Training delivery and cross-RI workshops. Metrics that will be useful for the assessment of the project must meet certain criteria in addition to those for basic project metrics. To document impact of and progress within the project, they must (1) enable the detection and documentation of what, in terms of technical solutions developed, works and what does not work, and which direction the development of services should take to make them truly useful for researchers, and (2) document how RIs successfully “cluster”, i.e. move together and develop the common interfaces, technical infrastructure, and integration of the different scientific communities.