The Transparent Website: extensible and flexible content management Julia C. Daniel; UMTRI Everyl Yankee; Yankee Ingenuity
The Transparent Website n Content Management System n Taxonomies n Information Dissemination
The Transparent Website Team members: n Network Administrator n Programmer n Librarians/Webmaster n Web Usability Consultant
Background n Nice looking site but lacking content n 5 years since last revision n Mixed messages/lack of message n Need for collaboration between divisions n No budget The Transparent Website
Content Management System n PHP, the chosen programming language n Easy to customize n Very dynamic and flexible n Integrates well with HTML The Transparent Website
Content Management System n Content Facilitators selected for each division n Responsible for collecting and uploading content for their respective division n Trained to build web pages and manipulate the taxonomy/metadata The Transparent Website
UMTRI Taxonomy consists of 6 taxonomies: The Transparent Website
UMTRI META DATA Date (R)Date Accepted Creator (Author ) (R)Date Submitted (S) ContributorRights Title (R)Conforms to Type (R)Format (R) Subject (R)Identifier (S) Publisher (R)Language Audience (R)Available (R) DescriptionAccess Rights R=Required metadata S=System generated metadata
The Transparent Website Metadata Content Taxonomy
The Transparent Website The taxonomy is reflected in the main navigation for the UMTRI website.
Questions? The Transparent Website
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