Name: Jan Holloway with Marsha WarenInstitution: Indiana University
E-mail Address: holloway@indiana.edu
Title of Presentation: Who spins the Web?
Format: Paper Presentation
Suggested Audience: People involved in their university's Web publishing efforts
Presentation Outcome:
1. visualize a Web publishing role for their computing center publishing group
2. Think about Web publishing needs on their campuses
3. Consider areas of their expertise their campuses can use
Presentation Content:
The Publications group at University Computing Services, Indiana University - Bloomington, perceived the need for a service that would help departments publish their home pages on the university's Web site. No other university office had stepped in to address that need, so we developed a Web publishing resource IU schools and departments could use. Called the Web Page Development Service (WPDS), this project provides start-up assistance on the Web to IU information providers. The WPDS mission is not to do the work for depart- ments, but to teach them to become self-sufficient Web publishers. Among the tools the service offers is a "toolbox" for Web developers that includes a Web style guide for IUB, templates of Web pages, access to the IUB Webmaster group and its services, and guides to HTML.
The writers and graphic designers who staff WPDS have learned a great deal about how to work with university departments that want to publish their tradi- tional print materials -- bulletins, catalogs -- on line. We have become educators in how to design for the Web, and how to write for the Web.
In this presentation we'll talk about WPDS at Indiana University: the services we designed and offer, the variety of needs we perceive among our clients, the new needs for computing center expertise we have identified on campus, and how WPDS services now fit into the larger university publishing landscape.