Minutes of the Meeting of February 7, 2007
1:30 - 3:30 pm, Davis Conference Room
Present: Allan Bell, Chris Gray, Esther Millar (recorder), Bill Oldfield (facilitator), Dan Sich, Charles Woods,
- Minutes of the meeting of Jan 24, 2007
Approved with minor corrections.
- Business Arising
#2 sub2 - OCUL MultiSearch - Multisearch hasn't been working well. OCUL has been investigating. Slowness and unreliability of connections have been identified as problems. ACTION: Allan will talk to Catherine Steeves at Guelph about their experience. Charles will source out the OCUL Report. Allan will check on whether the report can be distributed.
#2 sub10 - Anti-Spam Web Forms - Bill has made updates to the TUG feedback form
#2 sub2 - WinHTTrack - has been loaded on both Rose and Esther's machines. Esther will experiment with archiving the Architecture Library Task Group web site.
#4 - Membership
- Tim Ireland has now joined WebOps. ACTION: Charles will add Tim and Allan to the WebOps e-mail alias. Esther will add WebOps meetings to Tim's BookIt.
#6 - Web Page Printing - printing fix has not yet been implemented. It is on Chris' to-do list.
#8 - FireWorks - Dan is still waiting for Fireworks.
- Agenda review
No changes.
- Membership
Tim Ireland will be invited to the next meeting . Doug is interested but has not yet committed. Bill has spoken to Jesse Rodgers who seems open to setting up a relationship and perhaps attending meetings occasionally as topics of interest arise. ACTION: Bill will talk further with Doug and Jesse.
- Library Blogs and Wikis - update
The server crashed and files were corrupted. Chris was unable to restore yesterday's snapshot, but will continue to work on recovering the data.
The wiki now has a new URL: http://wiki.lib.uwaterloo.ca/ . Chris was able to restore everything from the old database. Only administrators can create accounts and users cannot edit unless they have an account.
The group shared experiences and thoughts about wikis and blogs. We noted wiki strengths for project planning and collaborative work. Previous experience has shown that successful blogs were those that had an interested community, where the organization used blogs as the only means of communication (e.g., journal that did not accept letters to the editor), or had a champion for the site who solicited responses.
As we talked about the practical applications for a Wiki, it was suggested that the maintenance of the TRELLIS Help pages might be handled on a Wiki. ACTION: Charles will take this to the TUG OPAC group to outline problems, solutions, etc. to help determine if Wiki is the way to go.
Chris noted that he has installed WordPress and determined that it is easy to install multiple versions of blogs. Each blog would need it's own host name and each version could have its own CLF (through style sheets, templates, etc.).
- Google Analytics
Our pages now include the javascript for Google Analytics. (It has been added to the department.html ssi.) To begin we will first concentrate our efforts on articulating what we hope to glean from the stats and then research to see whether Google Analytics will be able to deliver them. ACTION: All - send statistical requirements to Bill. We should also ask LibWebReview what kind of stats would be helpful to them.
- Telnet and ftp on Library
We discussed removing telnet and ftp from library machines. To ensure they are no longer required, Charles will scan logs to determine if they are being used. We will continue discussion in 2 weeks. Chris will talk to Carl about the SSH Clients on public workstations.
- Name for UWDIR authentication from Pilot
We were asked if it is possible to change the UWDIR signon used for Lexis/Nexis authentication, etc, on Pilot. ACTION: Charles will implement the change to: AuthName "Quest/UWDIR."
- Issue of secure UWDIR authentication from Pilot
Can we do secure UWDIR authentication for particular pages and not have to make the pilot server an https one. We discussed the concern from IST about a message "Warning: This server is requesting that your username password is being sent in a insecure manner..." There is a concern we are passing UWDIR authentication unencrypted and that we should not be doing this. ACTION: Charles will talk to Reg Quinton about https in Pearl scripts.
- Meeting Time
Deferred.
- Around the Table
On February 15, ExLibris is coming to Guelph to show their Primo wares. Allan will forward the invitation.
Charles and Allan shared a few thoughts about Scholar's Portal Day.
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