This document summarizes the status of Work Package 1 for an EU-funded project called DM2E. It discusses administrative changes to the WP1 leadership. It also introduces two new associated content partners, the National Library of the Netherlands and Georg Eckert Institute, who will provide digitized content for annotation. Finally, it provides an overview of the progress of various organizations in preparing their metadata and content according to the DM2E specification in order to be annotated through the Pundit platform.