Minutes of the Meeting of Sept 6, 2006
1:00 - 2:30 pm, DC 1568
Present: Chris Gray (recorder), Esther Millar, Bill Oldfield, Dan Sich, Marina Wan (facilitator)
Regrets: Charles Woods
- Minutes of joint meeting with LibWebReview June 28, 2006
Accepted with minor changes.
- Business Arising
#8 - UWSpace will go live 16 Oct. AHS is exploring possible use of DSpace. The German Department is also interested in using it. Bill suggested the Library needs a committee established to manage DSpace as a service offered by the Library to the UW community.
#11 -
WebOps meeting schedule updated in Bookit.
#4 - Dan's permissions have been established for editing access to the Web site.
ACTION: Esther will make changes to Christy's permissions in Contribute so that she can help maintain the Web site.
ACTION: Esther will check on what effect editing in Dreamweaver has on file permissions on the Library Web site.
#9 - Workstations group is planning to put Firefox in next image for staff. They plan to deploy it to public workstations once an intallation problem is fixed for IBM workstations.
#10 - Testing of blog software is beginning now that summer is over. Three copies of Viewlet Builder will be made available on Library laptops.
- Agenda review
Add
#8. Waterloo-Wellington-Dufferin Health Library Network
Moved from #8 to #9. Around the table
- Membership
Marian Davies has agreed to join WebOps to offer graphics support and Susan Routliffe has approved her addition.
ACTION: Marina will draft an email announcement and vet it with WebOps members.
- Archiving for Fall 2006
Its archiving time again. Bill raised the question of whether it is possible to archive the Web site on disk in a way that would allow it to be easily viewable. There are possible size implications (use DVD maybe?) that require use of a zip file and problems with absolute URLs. A Web 'copier' program (like WinHTTrack) might suffice if size and time aren't a factor and unnecessary file (such as Contribute back up files) can be factored out.
ACTION: Chris will ask Charles to do the annual back up.
- Strategies and Priorities
Some time was spent brainstorming a list of possible areas for further investigation and development:
- location maps
- browser support
- blog software
- event calendars and microformats
- library application integration
- RSS feeds
- wiki
- quick polls
- branded search bar/browser extensions
- techical review of Web site (CLF templates and off-site copies, CSS/SSI clean up, fixed page width vs. fluid design)
- metasearch
- Google analytics
- Update from LibWebReview
Marina reported on recent activities of the LibWebReview group.
- Waterloo-Wellington-Dufferin Health Library Network
Carol wants some help setting up the Web site. It is unclear who should help and how much.
ACTION: Marina will talk to Carol.
- Around the table
Marina - EI Webcast on Firefox extensions this Friday, Sept. 8th,
1 - 2 pm, DC 1568.
Chris - Planning to do short practical sessions on various Web 2.0 software for staff to help them understand patron's concerns and questions. The sessions will be brief and hands-on to give staff minimal abilities with del.icio.us, Bloglines, etc. Chris will make an effort to co-ordinate with the series of viewlets Dan is producing covering similar material.
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