As the key link of the project, the manager must be able to listen to and communicate clearly with team members and the project board or commissioning body and users. This person may often be a consultant employed for the purpose, so it should be possible to ensure they do have these skills. A multimedia project requires many elements to be brought together and integrated. The stages of collecting and selecting multimedia content, coordinating its transfer or delivery, and its editing and verification are time consuming. The curatorial team members with appropriate subject expertise should have overall responsibility for issues of content.
Multimedia requires rethinking the traditional presentation of data.
Proposals for ways of organizing data within a multimedia product or system are an essential part of the design process. Multimedia projects may often need, or wish, to make use of data already existing in some form as well as, or as a part of, creating new data sets. The state of the existing data must be carefully considered. Even where existing data is available in a machine-readable form, conversion or input to a new system requires some effort, usually requiring decisions by curatorial staff. Indexing requirements for multimedia may differ from traditional cataloging methods or have additional needs.