Posts Tagged ‘information architecture’CT Team Meeting Minutes 10/27/2009October 27th, 2009 by Adam FrancoTopic 1: Segue v1 shutdown notice.Team ok with Alex sending out the notice he presented. Team decided that the notice should be sent to all faculty rather than a limited group. Team decided that Segue 1 should be made unavailable at the end of Fall 2009 classes and not postponed until later. Topic 2: CT Site IA.Team looked at the Uses categories started by Alex. After much discussion and a few changes, we agreed to use the following IA as a starting point for our build-out: LIS Website Information ArchitectureOctober 22nd, 2009 by Jess IslerTeam, please find the new article here, and have at it!: LIS Website Information Architecture (Also linked from our team wiki page.) FYI: This follows the IA documents White Whale created for other parts of the College web redo project. It’s primarily a high-level guide to page & subpage structure, not a detailed list of page contents (though there are some content recommendations in the notes sections). See middfiles:\orgs\WebMakeover\IA Documents for examples (I used Academics when creating the wiki page.) LIS Quick LinksSeptember 17th, 2009 by Elin WaagenAction to be taken following meeting with WW. Come up with possible quick links based on immediate needs of constituencies. List just 2? Or more? If more than 2 – what should they be? Please add your comments, ideas, suggestions to this post by 5 pm on Tuesday. Final vote at our Wed meeting. Building the Digital Branch WebinarSeptember 11th, 2009 by Elin WaagenJust a quick fyi … Agenda for Wednesday 9/16September 9th, 2009 by Elin WaagenGreat news! Agenda So that we can dedicate the full meeting to this topic, I propose that we vote on the One-Blog readiness at our Thursday meeting. Please post suggestions for questions we’d like to ask Tonya about the site IA in the comments section of this post. One Blog to Pool them AllSeptember 8th, 2009 by Ian McBrideHere are my initial ideas of how this could be organized. Existing Infrastructure We’ll take the current LISt blog, rename it to just “LIS” and grant all staff in LIS Editor access to the blog. Student workers and LIS-related people like department advisory groups will have Author access granted as needed. Porting Content Users and groups with existing blogs may move their content into the LIS blog by going to Tools -> Export -> Download Export file in their blog, then Tools -> Import -> WordPress -> Upload file and Import. After doing so, they should go to Posts -> Categories and use the Category to Tag Converter to change any custom categories their blog had into tags on the LIS blog. Categories The LIS blog will start with this set of categories:
All other existing categories in the LIS blog will be changed to tags. In general, we’ll encourage the use to tags to mark things like posts that have photos in them, posts about particular workgroups, posts about particular projects, or other things that tend to have a more temporally mutable quality to them. Categories will be used chiefly for broad categories that change infrequently. Private Blogs The LIS blog will not be used to store private content. Groups, such as ACS, who wish to have a private blog should continue to use and maintain their blog in its present form or create new private blogs if one has not yet been set up. Internal vs. External Posts that are likely to be interesting only to LIS staff should be marked with the Internal category. Examples of this content might include a notice about LIS goal setting. Note that these posts would still be readable by the public, but that those subscribed to the public feed wouldn’t see them in the feed. Posts that are likely to have broader appeal, like a cookie party for students, should be marked with the External category, or both the Internal and External categories. There will be links to both the External and Internal feeds on the blog homepage with a description of the content featured in each so that site visitors can choose how they will read about LIS. Answers from Joe (paraphrased)August 26th, 2009 by Ian McBride1. Can we have a folder in middfiles for documents related to the LIS web redo? Sure. Just create a new folder in the Web Redo Project Managers area for LIS. 2. When will the next round(s) of Drupal training be offered? A second round of test training will be offered to the Project Managers group starting the week of 9/21. LIS Website Team members may request to attend as may the LIS Project Managers, though it would be a good idea to ensure that any who do attend are caught up on the current process, workbook, etc. Also, all involved should understand that they probably won’t be able to immediately go back and edit their site in Drupal after these sessions. There will be training work shops and sessions offered later in October for content editors at which point people should be doing content editing in the Drupal CMS. 3. Can we schedule a meeting with White Whale during their visit? Probably. Joe is, at the (not so) very least going to schedule a meeting with Tonya, who is responsible for the IA & Content Recommendations documents. I have a feeling that most of our questions will involve her. Joe will try to have the others from White Whale present for this meeting, if schedules allow. We should have a list of questions we want to ask going into the meeting. They will be on campus the week of 9/14. Offices & Services Information ArchitectureAugust 17th, 2009 by Ian McBrideYou can read the full first draft of the O&S IA in this Word document. This section is where most of the links to LIS and LIS related services will be. There will very likely also be a link to the LIS landing page in the Quick Links section of the footer, since Mike Roy wants there to be. Look over the full list in the document and add to the comments if there are any sections (with regard to LIS) that you think are misplaced, missing, or should be removed. For example, I see a link to “Web Services” in the list. My workgroup has a site on the website, but there’s very rarely any useful information for us to add to the site. I don’t think Web Services needs a web presence, since the whole site really is my group’s web presence. Also, I think the LIS link under Technology is redundant since every other link under Technology goes to an LIS maintained site about Technology. What else? Here is a list of the LIS related links I found in each section: Academic Campus Life News & Information Technology |