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Web Operational Management Group

Minutes of the Meeting of February 19, 2003
1:00 pm, Davis Centre Conference Room

Present: Chris Gray (Recorder), Esther Millar, Bill Oldfield, Marina Wan (Facilitator), Paul St-Pierre

Absent: Linda Hastings, Charles Woods

  1. Minutes of meeting February 5, 2003 - approved with minor changes
  2. Business Arising
    • #4 Marina will send an announcement to webmaint-l that pages for the library Web site needs to meet the HTML 4.01 Transitional standard and that pages need not be designed to function properly in Netscape 4.7 and 4.8.
    • #5 Charles has added Cheryl and Marian to webmaint
    • #7 A demo of JAWS is being arranged with Janet Wason
    • #8 Ester sent out a call to ISR and webmaint for updates to the site index -- there was a brief flurry of responses that died out quickly
    • #9 Bill discovered that the suggestion for use of PHP had been made casually to allow embedding of the UW library navbar in pages for the index of TDR resources. This can be handled in many other ways.
  3. Agenda Review
    • Discusion of Text Navbars added as item 7
    • UWOne added as item 8
  4. Projects and priorities

    Paul, as a new member, had suggested that it would help him to clarify what irons the WebOps group has in the fire.

    Bill discussed the need to identify a Web development group, consisting of Bill and Chris, who are being helped this term by a co-op student, Joe Stauttener. Marina as a writer and maintainer of perl cgi scripts might also be considered part of this group.

    The question was brought up as to what responsibility WebOps has to ensuring the useability and design quality of the Library's Web site, as opposed to managing site maintenance and overseeing technological issues.

    Bill suggested organizing WebOps responsibilities under six headings:

    1. Site statistics
    2. Quality assurance (technical and design)
    3. Staff training
    4. Site management
    5. Site accessibility
    6. Technology research

    Bill suggested that this list would help separate what is part of WebOps concerns from what is not.

    The group seemed to be in agreement about the need for stepping up its quality assurance efforts and there was a discussion of what Web page authoring standards to insist on, on improving out-of-date and poorly designed pages currently on the site, and on the problem of staff who have done fancy Web designs that successors in their position can't maintain.

    It was agreed to continue the discussion at future meetings.

  5. Projects for co-op students

    The opportunity may arise for WebOps to use the services of a co-op student hired by the Library.

    One suggestion for possible assignment is having them do quality assurance by checking Web pages for standards compliance.

  6. StaffWeb Link - Library's Homepage

    The primary stakeholders for the Library's public web are students and a students primary problem seems to be more access to too much information. Everyone was reminded that students do have access to to the public side of the Staffweb through a Google search. To further facilitate access the decsion was made to add the StaffWeb as an item on the siteindex page.

  7. Text Navbar

    There have been problems with the User Services menus and they have decided to go with the standard page construction. Lori has been allocated time to work on the creation of these new pages.

    It ispossible to implement text based drop down menus. Rose has created text based drop down menus for the StaffWeb top page. The SSIs need to be setup. We are ready to implement text based drop down menus in the StaffWeb with a few changes to existing menu items.

    Test drop down menus are being created. Esther will provide the URLs.

  8. UWOne

    Paul has taken on the responsibility of documenting LT3's UWOne for students and instructors. Currently UWOne has only a link to the Library's homepage. It should also contain links to ereserve, the disciple pages and possibly other relevant areas. The prospect was discussed and Paul will proceed to encourage the creators of UWOne to increase the Library's presencein Angel, the new Blackboard replacement.

  9. Around the Table

The meeting was running late and no comments were added.

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