Minutes of the Meeting of November 10, 2004
2:00pm, Porter Conference Room
Present: Christy Branston, Chris Gray, Linda Hastings, Affan Javed, Esther Millar, Bill Oldfield, Marina Wan (Facilitator), Charles Woods (Recorder)
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Minutes of the Meeting, October 27 , 2004
Accepted with minor corrections: Affan was added to the "Present" list, and "University of Toronto" was changed to "City of Toronto" in item 2.7 of "Business Arising".
- Business Arising
2.7 "Marina noted that the City of Toronto is using web content software and will look into exactly which software this is." It was determined to be a combination of Vignette ( http://www.vignette.com/ ) and Ektron's eWebEditPro.
5. Contribute Testing Action Item: Bill reported that 5 people attended the Contribute information session on November 10 (see item 4 below).
- Agenda Review
These items were added:
Webbit Tip #3
Optometry Learning Resource Centre
Printing with CSS
- Contribute seminar
Bill reported that he, Marina, Affan, Linda and Charles attended a 2-hour Macromedia session on Contribute Wednesday morning November 10 in Toronto. The session highlighted the use of Contribute in a CMS environment and included practical examples to illustrate its capabilities to simplify Web maintenance for content creators (publishers). Server-side security and configuration capabilities were also demonstrated.
- Contribute Testing
The group discussed test issues with regards to the Contribute product. Firstly it was decided to change the agenda item from "Contribute Deployment" to "Contribute Testing" to avoid a suggestion of prejudgement of results. Then test items were identified and assigned to members:
--roles and permissions (Bill, Affan)
--FlashPaper file transformations (Charles, Linda)
--rights management and authentication (Bill)
--asset management (image folders, roles) (Bill, Christy, Marina)
--software acquisitions issues (cost, copies, etc)(Bill, Esther, Carl)
A lusty debate ensued over the need to review Contribute against the work of the CMS task force. It was noted that Contribute could positively or negatively affect the entire organization and that it would be wrong to assume that it would be a simple transition to Contribute from Dreamweaver with respect to new working arrangements and data-flow. It was advocated that while micro-testing of the issues listed above could continue, nevertheless macro-analysis of CMS issues should also be made before a commitment was made to the product. Others disagreed. All agreed to continue discussion of the issue in the next meeting.
Bill and Esther agreed to review the current site structure to determine if changes should be made to accomdate the use of Contribue and its Administration/Site Management components.
- Home Page Review Project
Marina reported that the committee has held its first meeting. The charter was revised; changes were reviewed with the WebOps members. Marina asked that WebOps send any further feedback to her in the next 48 hours as the URL will be distributed to library staff shortly. She noted that the group is enthusiastic and understand that their work may continue well into the next year.
- RefWorks on home Page
It was agreed to put a RefWorks link on the home page. Linda suggested it be added to the quick-links area of the page. Linda will add the link; Marina will inform ISR of the change.
- Webbit Tip #3
Webbit Tip #3, fixing cropped pages, is ready for distribution. Esther asked that some testing be done with regards to the use of the techniques in the tip and printing pages that utilize templates.
- Optometry Learning Resource Centre
Esther asked if it was possible to move the Optometry Learning Resource Centre to the library web site. It was recommended that a check be made with the WebOps sponsers, Mark and Susan, with regards to the proposal and that it be determined if the files were significant in size. Otherwise no problem was envisaged, and Tim Ireland already has an account on the library server.
- Printing with CSS
Affan and Esther reported that they had encountered printing problems in various browsers on web pages governed by CSS style-sheets and asked the group about the degree of compliance required for this function. The group noted that a reasonable compliance with current browsers is required but that this should not extend backwards to older versions and that no special accomodation should be made for browsers other than Netscape or IE for printing purposes alone. Discretion should be applied.
- Next meeting
The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 24. Room and time to be announced.
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