Woodrow Wilson School

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Woodrow Wilson School

• History
• One of Princetons first academic department
  sites, started 6 years ago
• Began with basic Graduate Program catalog
  information, now has comprehensive departmental
  information

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Woodrow Wilson School

• Rationale
• Independent from the start because central
  services didnt provide needed functionality
• Unix-based, because that was the available
  platform
• These choices are being re-examined in light of
  new central technology and services

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Woodrow Wilson School

• Resources
• Central site developed primarily by one IT
  professional (1/2 FTE)
• Centers create own sites with IT staff
  assistance, sometimes with outside consultants
• Students have been used in the past

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Woodrow Wilson School

• Project management
• IT professional management of main site
• Distributed management of Center sites
• CourseInfo now used for course web pages
• Web technology and resources priority for
  Assistant Dean for IT
• Director of Communications Public Affairs, will
  be involved with content management

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Woodrow Wilson School

• Site maintenance
• Combination of central and distributed
  maintenance
• Maintenance currently primarily by IT staff
• Future direction for support staff to be involved
  in routine maintenance

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Woodrow Wilson School

• Success
• Much content has been made available
• Several databases developed
• Course web pages enhanced
• Use of Dbtoolbox for forms and database
  information retrieval

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Woodrow Wilson School

• Future - additional resources
• Enhanced central services would allow moving from
  own server
• Need for better page creation tools, content
  management software, statistics, search engine

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Woodrow Wilson School

• Future - WWS site Wish List
• Need for comprehensive identity for all
  communications, publications, web site
• Content oversight must come from content experts,
  not IT staff
• More dynamic content, interactive forms,
  calendars, site login, chat and bulletin boards,
  event registration