Network-based Information Services Committee September 21, 1995 Meeting Location: Peabody 110 Time: 8:15 a.m. Attending: Louise Dudley (chair), John Unsworth, Josie Pipkin, Edward Gaynor, Janet Sakell, Gordon Stewart, Alice Howard, Glen Bull, Tim Sigmon, Nancy Tramontin, Dan Phillipon, Robert Leheup. Distributed: Agendas; "Reorganization of Advisory Committees on Information Technology" sheet; Unix Account Holder Disclaimer; Draft - GWIS Mission Statement; McIntire Department of Music Web pages. I. New committee structure discussed; handouts distributed; support staff role explained; charge read. Glen voiced a concern that the emphasis in the charge is not on people but on technology and networking and asked that the committee be sensitive to this. He also expressed some concern that faculty might feel excluded due to the more technical/administrative emphasis. Louise is to nominate committee members and forward her list to Polley McClure for "official" appointments to the committee. II. "How this committee works": Louise felt like the small/expert group arrangement allowed the committee to accomplish more by breaking big issues into smaller tasks. Existing Working Groups: Automated Processing - Tim Sigmon Software available to provide statistics on Web "hits;" system logs are available for previous months. Harvest search software is "on hold" until more disk arrives (ordered). Discussion included: saving and accumulating hits from month-to-month; making stats available from a button on the home page; counting by request; concern that some service providers like AOL cache info from Web sites and make it impossible to get correct counts. Edward requested something be made available to archive the "What's New" entries as well as check for personal pages that are barren. Tim and others discussed the Dean of Students' efforts to provide student organizations (CIOs) space on a student-only machine. Discussed were: quotas; security; shared mailboxes; better file permission tools; advisory policy and solutions to problems. Admissions - Louise Dudley Jack Blackburn is anxious to go "on-line." Nancy and Edward to meet with Admissions; would also like to include Graduate Admissions (Bob Huskey). III. GWIS Mission Statement Polley McClure expressed to Louise concerns about: legal liability; distancing from personal pages (for example, Cornell has two front ends and Princeton has no "unofficial" pages; "Traveler Beware" pages). John felt that no disclaimer would protect the University if the material in question was on a University owned machine. Glen warned that once you leave virginia.edu there is little UVa can do. Nancy discussed her project for Mr. Sandridge's managers; an "official" look for Web pages for the departments reporting to him. Gordon suggested that the terms of membership in the community should govern [on-line/electronic] behaviors just as they do telephone or paper usage. Some discussion of what body/bodies (Faculty Senate/Honor Committee) would deal with complaints. Unix account holder disclaimer distributed. IV. The UVa Home Page Edward noted a need to discuss the inclusion of commercial sites on the UVa page and reported there had been a lot of queries about admissions. 3a. Josie passed out printouts of the Arts pages; would like to "bounce" the Arts calendar up into the "What's Happening" section of News and Events. 3b. Gordon reported that Liz Fortune and Bob Huskey are making progress on pages for CLAS and department pages should be up within 6 months and links to the Registrar and International Studies will be included. Question about whether or not the College could run its own server; John Unsworth said he would help with server setup. jcs.10/06/95
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