The general composition of each TEAM is as follows:

• Director (or Co-directors), principal investigator
• Co-investigators (individual academic and professional researchers)
• Test-bed partners (archives or archival units within organizations that are the locus and subject of the research, the primary stakeholders)
• Resource partners (organizations that have an expertise in some aspect of the research and share it providing regular input and feedback—they can be from the TEAM’s country or foreign)
• Collaborators (individuals who have a special expertise in some aspect of the research and will be called to contribute to the Project as needed—they can be from the TEAM’s country or foreign)
• Graduate Research Assistants (graduate students enrolled in archival and/or library studies programs of education or in programs relevant to the matter of specific case studies, e.g., journalism, criminology)