NBIS Committee Meeting on January 18, 2001
Attending: Louise Dudley, Bob LeHeup, Diane Walker, Shawn Felton, Lori Willy, Deb Mills, Janet Sakell, Nancy Tramontin, Tim Sigmon, Kay Cutler, Josie Pipkin. I. Advertising on the Web (Louise) Louise met with Chip German and Bob Reynolds for a discussion on web advertising, use/non-use, and mission statement update. Will go to Mr. Sandridge for approval and then the policy will be posted and linked into the copyright pages. "Exceptions" (Career Services for one) still need to understand the policy. It was noted that certain departments, like Career Services, do sell advertising and they do pay taxes on the unrelated income; Nancy wondered if accomodating such situations may work against us in the long run? Should we revisit the issue when contracts with advertisers expire? Makes us vulnerable to this kind of behavior all over the UVa web space. II. UVa Home Page Redesign (Nancy) Nancy presented an update to the UVa home page: general cleanups, increased use of library items for page loading. Nancy did note that the page is losing adaptability. "Facts at a Glance" is being redone in a more tabular form; it will be added as a top link or will replace "Top Q & A." "About Jefferson's Academical Village" is a new link. Diane asked if this section might include links to "Library of Tomorrow" work on the architectural archives? III. "Pot Luck" Registrar's Office (Bob) Bob reported that ISIS has been swamped and that the increased use (and slowdowns) have become much more noticeable in the last year or so. 85% of the use was coming in through the web site; this has dropped to 50% or so due to slower response times. The Registrar's Office is contracting out transcript printing and selling mini diplomas in Lucite (-: COD keyword search work request has been submitted to ITC; there is an ITC resource issue with the ISP taking so many ITC staff. Summer session will not have web registration. Library (Diane) The library is working on portals; cataloguing; and community building. A BOV presentation on merging electronic resources, etc, is to take place on Saturday. Diane suggested NBIS might like to hear portions of the presentation at the February meeting. Library (Kay) The Library and Health Sciences Library have merged and the HS catalog has been added to VIRGO. With ITC's support, more wireless laptops have been ordered for use in all libraries (ITC donated 25 machines to match an existing 25 units). Education School (Kay) They have added two more technology rooms and John Lloyd is changing staff. Redo of web site may be coming. The Ed School offered mini TTI-like grants ($1K-$5K) to faculty to "re-do" courses to take advantage of technology. Bob McNergney has an interesting project that lets people from other universities use his course; this has led to some problems with library use and non-UVa students. ITC (Janet) SITAC has a January 30th Technology forum scheduled for students and other interested parties. A later Futures' Forum for faculty and staff is being planned. ITC (Deb Mills) Her group is working on later stages of portal development (framework and five applications). February pilot in Brown College and ATG group within ITC. What happens after Phase I depends on funding - portal work is labor intensive and expensive; does someone propose major yearly funding for the project? Do we ask the institution to move forward on the project and to what extent does UVa support this work? Side note: Steve Kimata is chairing up a credit card usage group. ITC (Tim) Dr. Reynolds' office is working on a web site based on EDUCAUSE's "How You Present IT Info to Parents and Students" outline. Web-based e-mail rollout soon! Webmaster (Nancy) Yahoo Survey? New sites: Bill Quant's suite of sites for "international activities:" International Studies, Int'l. Initiatives, Study Abroad Music has been redone into four separate sites; SESPOG was hoping for university-wide booking, ticketing, and reservation systems to help student plan events better/more easily. Engineering (Josie) School of Engineering's Science and Technology site is having some problems with a new Sun server and PHP versioning issues. Josie is working on creating new secondary sites with Mitch Rosen and the CS department. Dean of Students (Lori) At a recent retreat, technology was the third issue behind diversity and faculty relations concerns. The student event calendar is with Deb Mills' group; it is a place to post car washes, AA meetings, Student Council meetings, etc. DoS continues to send out weekly e-mails (connections@virginia.edu) Several other groups within DoS office need revamping on the web (Nancy is working on Financial Aid site). Web-based survey on alcohol attitudes out there. Next meeting is Thursday, February 15, at 1:30pm in location TBA (Library of Tomorrow presentation). Corrections to sakell@virginia.edu.