Computation Center materials in the University archives

Inventory of Computation Center materials in the University archives, Wilson Library, with links to online copies.

There are four boxes. We've finished Box #2 and are working on Box #3..

Campus Information Services

Campus Information Services: 1988-1998
The growth of the Web — VTX, Gopher, WWW, Audio/Video
Folders in Box 2.

Folder: Steering Committee

Folder: INFO Notes Nov. 25, 1987- April 27, 1989

Folders: INFO Development 1988-1997

Folder: Menus

Folder: Poster

The pages used to create the INFO poster: see the attached files info-poster-1.jpg, info-poster-2.jpg, and info-poster-3.jpg.

Folder: Student Government

Correspondence with Michael Thomas and the statment of purpose and plans for the Information Technology Task Force, 1994-95 aimed at bringing students in better touch with the computing resources of the University. It includes a section on getting student organizations online.

Folder: Terminals

Information about the INFO terminals, location (Student Union, Manning Lobby, Phillips Hall outside the computer area, Wilson Library reception area, South Building lobby, Davis Library, Undergraduate Library, Vance Hall, Rosenau Hall, and the Morehead Planatarium Visitor Center - Spring 1992), maintenance, and plans to upgrade.

Folder: Kill INFO

June 1994 - April 1996: The transition from VTX (on the DEC VAX), through gopher (on the Convex, Gibbs), to the Web — terminals (particularly Administrative Data Processing IBM 3270s), network, email correspondence, system change notices.
October 11, 1994: Handout Internet Exploring, covering ftp, gopher basics, news groups, interesting places to go.

Folder: New Home Page

Meeting notes and planning information for redesigning the home page, starting November 9, 1995. The Febraury 7, 1996 notes include a summary of e-mail to info@unc.edu. February 21, 1996: Development of a missions statement for the Campus Web. May 31, 1996: Rewriting policies and Procedures, search option, statistics. June 14, 1996: Working on a page for the "Office of the Chancellor." June 12, 1996: Schedules for home page and for policies, guidelines, and procedures, including approval by University Legal Counsel. June 28, 1996: email with blind copies to about 200 campus web information coordinators with about new home page and policies and procedures.

Folder: New Home

Folders: Ra

Overview of contents

A few specifics

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UNC-CH Web history

Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:00:09 -0500

From: Judy Hallman <hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

To: Web-Walkers <web-walkers@unc.edu>, Support <support@unc.edu>

Subject: UNC-CH Web history

To Web-Walkers and Support lists:

A student asked me for UNC-CH web history information for a paper he was writing. I thought you might be interested in seeing it. Here's what I have.

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu, http://www.unc.edu/-hallman/)

Campus-Wide Information Systems Manager, UNC-Chapel Hill

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November 1987: Initial planning for service using VTX software running on a DEC VAX.

January 1988: Set up steering committee, which included a student (Stephanie Ahlschwede, I think she was a freshman then)

Feb. 16, 1988: Article in DTH, front page: "Computer network to relay campus-wide information."

April 1988: Letter sent to deans, directors and department heads -- "If you have data you think should be added to this database, please specify a contact person on the attached form." During the spring and summer I met with each of the contact people.

May 4, 1988: Newsbrief article -- "Campus Information Center Planned."

August 17, 1988: News Release from News Services -- "Free computerized information service offers up-to-minute campus data."

"Info offers UNC students, faculty and staff a simple, convenient system for obtaining the information they need..."

"Our immediate goal is to provide information that freshmen will find helpful..."

August 17, 1988: Newsbrief -- "ACS Implements Info System for UNC" -database contains:

The student handbook, which is now called "The Source"

MANY calendars and event schedules

Campus newsletters

Facts & Information brochure

Campus Directory

Employment opportunities

September 2, 1988: DTH article -- "Computer system to provide students with campus Info"

... "To use Info, students or faculty can use designated terminals in Davis library, the undergrad library or the student union."

September 15, 1988: Orange Edition, Triangle Observer, the News and Observer: "Electronic orientation introduced: UNC-CH campus grows user-friendly"

September 16, 1988: DTH -- "Center to store information about campus organizations"

September 28, 1988: DTH supplement on CompuFest '88: "Computer system provides students with INFOrmation"

"We're making new information available daily" -- Associate Provost John Harrison

"UNC students now have direct access to the NCSU system through INFO."

"University Registrar David Lanier said he has printed his academic calendar in INFO."

September 28, 1988: Newsbrief "Grant Information Available in INFO"

November 23, 1988: Newsbrief "Independent Study Catalog in INFO"

April 5, 1989: Newsbrief -- "Student Organizations Now In INFO"

April 19, 1989: DTH: "Campus INFO enters into computer age."

"Some new services include faculty and student phone number and address listings and listings of officially recognized student organizations."

"Terminal are in several places on campus, include the Student Union, Davis Library, House Undergraduate Library, the South Building lobby and Manning Hall's lobby."

May 10, 1989: Newsbrief -- "Job Openings Now In INFO"

May 13, 1989: Dedication Ceremony, Visitors Center, Morehead:

"Tours of the facility and a demonstration of the INFO system also will be offered."

January 30, 1990: The University Gazette: "Info -- the best campus planning tool available"

Main Menu:

1. HELP -- Using INFO

2. Calendar

3. News

4. Campus Directory, catalogs, and lists

5. Ask INFO about ...

6. Other Information Systems

Included: grant and funding opportunities, faculty and staff job openings, campus directory, Independent Studies catalog, Evening College catalog, "The Source" (student handbook -- was in the initial service), newsletters

March 14, 1990: Newsbrief -- Chapel Hill Transit Guide in INFO

April 25, 1990: Newsbrief -- "Faculty Council Minutes Now In INFO"

May 28, 1990: Newsbrief -- "Toll-Free Numbers Listed In INFO"

November 12, 1990: Newsbrief -- "UNC-G Data Now In INFO"

December 10, 1990: Newsbrief -- "UNC-Wilmington Data Now In INFO"

July 1, 1991: Newsbrief -- "Appalachian State Data Now In INFO"

Sometime in 1991, INFO became available on the Administrative Data Processing (ADP) menu

October 14, 1991: Newsbrief -- The Undergraduate Bulletin is now available in INFO

The Human Resources Manual for SPA Employees and the Fact Book 1990-91 were online before June 30, 1992

December 7, 1992: Newsbrief -- "UNC-CH INFO Data Searchable from WAIS"

January 1993: There were 50 known WWW servers in the world, including one at the University of North Carolina -- SunSITE. At the time, http://www.unc.edu/ was SunSITE (now SunSITE is http://sunsite.unc.edu/)

May 31, 1993: Newsbrief -- "New, Improved INFO Service"

Put in a gopher version of Info; kept the VTX version;

duplicate maintenance

Fall 1993, Paul Jones started the UNC-CH Gopher Herd.

The University Gazette has been online for a long time. The oldest one I can find is in the gopher: November 3, 1993

November 29, 1993: Newsbrief -- "Graduate School Record Now In INFO"

December 27, 1993: "Library Gopher Server"

"The UNC-CH Internet Library section of the SunSITE gopher provides access to a large selection of information source through the Internet."

February 1994: UNC-Gopher Herd meeting summaries online (at http://www.unc.edu/campus/aboutweb/walkers/oldmtgs.html)

May 1994: Set up UNC-CH Gopherspace

July 18, 1994: Discontinued the VTX service; INFO is only on gopher.

INFO terminals bring up the "Inet" menu, allowing e-mail as well as INFO access

July 1994: UNC-Gopher Herd renamed to Web-Walkers

Summer/Fall 1994: Office of Information Technology develops a home page for the campus

October 3, 1994: First issue of the Daily Tar Heel installed in the Web

October 5, 1994: First issue of the University Gazette installed in the Web

October 1994: Web-Walkers plan replacement UNC-CH home page; began planning to kill the gopher.

December 14, 1994: University Gazette: "University, worldwide info only a computer away"

Announced the second Web home page for the campus. Picture of the Mosaic screen. Gopher service starts dying a natural death -- not being updated...

February 1995: Started summarizing e-mail sent to info@unc.edu; first summary online is September 1995. Requests coming in for information on how to create Web pages.

March 1995 - December 1995: Committee for Coordination of University Web Documents met and proposed policies; reviewed by Web-Walkers.

Fall 1995: Policies and procedures for creating personal web pages and web pages for groups were online.

August 23, 1995: Office of Information Technology announces that it
provides space for personal home pages for UNC students, faculty, and staff, as well as departments and organizations.

April 29, 1996: gopher service discontinued: no more useful info in it

February through July: Campus-wide effort to redesign the home page

Summer 1996: Policies and procedures revised.

July 1, 1996:

3,536 public_html directories on www.unc.edu

130 group ids created on www.unc.edu

104 links make from the UNC-CH home page to departments and organizations

August 7, 1996: University Gazette -- "New home page offers easier access to information"

CompuFest

Folder in Box 2, Computer Fair.

Computer Science Department

Computer Science (Box 2)

Data communications

Data communications material from Tyler Johnson and Joe Ragland donated to the collection August 2011.


History of computers

History of Computers (Box 2)

History of computing at UNC-Chapel Hill

History 1957 - 1998: Contents of Box 2, University archives

1957

1959

1960

1967

1973

1976

1978

1979

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1996

1997

1998

AttachmentSize
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Photos

Folders of photos in Box 2. Click the link to see those that are online. Click the photos to enlarge.

Psychometric Laboratory

LGP-30 materials from Lyle Jones, Psychometric Laboratory

Web-Walkers

The current Campus Webmasters group (http://webmasters.unc.edu/) was previously known as the Web-Walkers and before that, as the Gopher herd.

Web-Walkers meeting notes January 1997 - July 1998 are in Box 2.

Also see notes below.

1995-01-18: Review UNC-CH Home Page

From hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.eduFri Feb 10 08:43:37 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:25:54 -0500
From: Judy Hallman
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Subject: Summary of Jan 18 Web-Walkers meeting

Summary of January 18 Web-Walkers meeting
on the UNC-CH Home Page

Next meeting:
February 15: Review UNC-CH style guide

This was a very informal meeting -- general discussion of the
UNC-CH Home Page.

Someone said that image loading is slow. There was discussion
about how to turn off images and a suggestion to add this
information into the help for new users.

Netscape is available from sharenet.oit.unc.edu.
For Windows, go to net/winsock/apps/netscape.
For Macs, go to net/Macintosh/netscape

[corrected Feb. 10] Wendy Parker is having problems loading the
staff jobs listing; it is large and crashes her PC. She has had better
results by bookmarking that file and going straight to it without
going to the UNC Home Page

Hallman said that now that the Staff and Faculty sections
have been split, the worst sections are "Welcome...,"
"Departments and Organizations," and "Recreation, events, and
calendars." (Well, actually, there are more -- the Global
resource section needs a better name and better stuff in it,
and it's not easy to get to UNC System resources.)

The Welcome section is weak. Hallman met with Scott Jared
(Publications Services); he will try to find some good
material for this section and help with its organization.
Weather information is buried at the end of the section. It
was suggested that we move weather out to the Home Page,
perhaps with a small icon in the bottom left corner,
replacing the date. Thomas will look into doing that.

We need to find a better presentation for Departments and
Organizations -- three views were proposed: alpha, alpha
within Academic Affairs and Health Affairs, and by
organizational structure. A search option would also be nice.

The Recreation, events, and calendars sections also need
better organization. There currently are two pages -- one for
students and one for faculty and staff. They are essentially
the same, except the student page has a few additional items.
The pages are long and it is hard to find things in them --
especially OIT training classes.

We talked about possibly having a section on campus life
under the Welcome page.

Someone pointed out that things people go to often should be
in their bookmark files. Some people put in their home pages
links to things they use a lot.

With regard to personal home pages, Mary Overby will look
into providing linkable URLs for home pages in the UNC-CH
Email ID Database Lookup, where people currently look up e-
mail addresses and phone numbers. An update facility could be
provided, like the one for e-mail address. Tom Rutledge
described the proposal to have personal home pages on the
free e-mail machine, coming out of the current disk space
quota of 3 Meg. NSF would be used to connect the pages to the
WWW server on Ra.

This lead to considerable discussion about potential dangers
from personal home pages and possible University liabilities.
This is an area of concern on most campuses that have Web
servers.

Scott Mebust briefly described the work he is doing to
generate HTML pages for Physics faculty from a FoxPro
database.

We do not have topics for the March and later meetings. Some
suggestions are:

Sybase and the Web (Mary Overby would lead)
Translators to HTML
Copyright
HTML editors

What are your preferences?

Atttendees:
Lea Blanton, Cont. Ed.
Andy Broughton, Soc. Work
Kathleen Crook, Sheps Center
Chuck Fennimore, CARES
Judy Hallman, Office of Information Technology
Tom Hocking, Morehead Planetarium
Doris Jarrell, OIT
Nancy Jesser, OIT
JJ Kim, Soc. Work
Ken Langley, OIS
Scott Mebust, Physics
Mary Overby, ADP
Wendy Parker, AHEC
Glen Piper, OIS
Tom Rutledge, OIT
Kathy Thomas, OIT
Iosif Vaisman, Pharmacy
Ken Yow, VC/GSR
Weifan Zheng, Pharmacy

1995-02-22: Review campus style guide

Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:31:25 -0500
From: Judy Hallman
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Subject: Summary of Feb. 22 mtg on style guide

Summary of February 22 Web-Walkers meeting
on the UNC-CH style guide

Presenter: Mary Overby

Next meeting: Mary Overby has agreed to continue the discussion of the UNC-CH
style guide at our next meeting, March 15, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., 308
Gardner.

Mary displayed the proposed UNC-CH style guide at
http://www.adp.unc.edu/~mao/style_guide/unc_style_guide.html. She proposed
that we call it "Guidelines for Developing HTML Pages," and that we copy
the file somewhere else. [The file is now also at
http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/guidelines.html. From the preceding page
(Help for information providers), it is called Guidelines for Developing
HTML Pages.]

Some of the items we discussed included:

How to include a comment in HTML code --

Signing work.

Spacing: don't try to control it.

Need more guidelines on content.

Need some guidelines on how to make the decision as to when a new home
page is ready to go online.

Atttendees:
Lea Blanton, CCE
Nancy Doyle, ADP/REG
Judy Hallman, OIT
Freb Hunt, Anesthesiology
Nancy Jesser, OIT
Ken Langley, OIS
Tim Murphy, OCIS
Mary Overby, ADP
Roy Reter, OIS
Tom Rutledge, OIT
Kathy Thomas, OIT
Cheryl Ward, CPC

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu)
Office of Information Technology

1995-03-15: Review of UNC-CH HTML Guidelines

Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 17:17:30 -0500
From: Judy Hallman
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Subject: Summary of March 15 mtg on HTML Guidelines

Summary of March 15 Web-Walkers meeting
on UNC-CH HTML Guidelines

Mary Overby lead a continuation of discussion of the Guidelines prepared by
the Style Guide Committee:

Nancy Doyle --- nmd.admin at mhs.unc.edu
Mary Overby --- mao.admin at mhs.unc.edu
Bob Schreiner --- bschrein.sph2 at mhs.unc.edu
Bob Stepno --- rbstepno at email.unc.edu

Mary has included the recommended changes in the document and the revised
document is now available in the Web at
http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/guidelines.html.

This is a growing, changing document, so if you have any suggestions for
additions or changes, please send them to the committee.

We discussed several topics for future meetings:

How to do sound files and video
CGI bin programming
Indexing
Copyright
HTML editors
Sybase and the Web
Translators to HTML

The topics chosen for the next meeting (April 19, 308 Gardner, 12-1) are:

Relative URLs and moving from machine to machine
Security -- readable directories and index.html files
Soft links

Gene Hoffman and Judy Hallman will find leaders for the discussion.

Atttendees:
Kathleen Crook, Sheps Center
Lynn Eades, HSL
Judy Hallman, OIT
Gene Hoffman, OIT
Doris Jarrell, OIT
Roger Nelsen, Alumni Assoc.
Greg O'Rear, ADP
Mary Overby, ADP
Cindy Rhine, DCRP
Tom Rutledge, OIT
Kathy Thomas, OIT
Cheryl Ward, CPC

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu)
Office of Information Technology

1995-04-19: Relative URLs

Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 09:16:43 -0400
From: Judy Hallman
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Subject: Summary of April 19 Web-Walkers meeting

To Web-Walkers:

Summary of April 19 Web-Walkers meeting on:

* Relative URLs and moving from machine to machine
* Security -- readable directories and index.html files
* Soft links

Relative URLs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Some browsers do not handle relative URLs properly. The recommendation is
to use full URLs, for example http://www.unc.edu/gif/wellIcon.gif. If
there is a need to change them all, that can easily be done with a
utility, like a perl script (for example, Gene Hoffman wrote one to take
/hallman/home out of all the files on the OIT server).

Security
~~~~~~~~
Every Web directory should have an index.html file. If you name your file
something else, like homepage.html, make a soft link (see below) to
establish an alias for it.

The reason for this is that if someone specifies a directory in a URL (for
example, http://www.unc.edu/pubs/) the browser will use the index.html
file in that directory. If there is no index.html file, the browser will
display "Index of /directory name/" (for example, "Index of /pubs/")
followed by an option to choose the parent directory and then a list of
the files and directories in the selected directory. If the user chooses
"parent directory," they will go up a level in the directory structure.
They can keep going up the tree until they come to a directory that has an
index.html file. If there are no index.html files, the user might be able
to get into some system files or other areas they should not be able to
access.

Further, if you name the html file index.html, the user doesn't need to
specify the filename (they just specify the directory). It's best to
include the trailing slash (at the end of the URL for a directory) because
some versions require it.

Soft links
~~~~~~~~~~
Use the command "ln -s" to create a soft link. For example,

ln -s homepage.html index.html

will make index.html an alias for the file homepage.html.

Atttendees:
Kathleen Crook, Sheps Center
Lynn Eades, HSL
Judy Hallman, OIT
Carol Martell, HSRC
Tom Rutledge, OIT
Bill Tolbert, HSRC

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu)
Office of Information Technology

1995-05-17: Web forms, cgi programs

Summary of May 17 Web-Walkers Meeting

Summary of May 17 Web-Walkers Meeting

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 10:20:20 -0400
From: Judy Hallman 
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Subject: Summary of May 17 Web-Walkers Meeting

Summary of May 17 Web-Walkers meeting on Web forms, cgi programs, and ADP's direction (particularly with regard to the Netscape secure server and the Windows server), with a few additions from Joel Dunn

[Thanks to Bob Schreiner for his notes.]

Joel Dunn, Administrative Data Processing (ADP), gave an excellent presentation to a group of 40-50 Web-Walkers.

We began the meeting with the usual question/answer session.

Q: How do you get your server registered, so that your information is included in the big indexes?

A: You can tell Yahoo and NCSA. On the other hand, if your stay out there long enough, you'll be discovered. Cindy Rhine offered to send a message to the Web-Walkers list describing the registration process.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 09:23:12 -0400
From: Cynthia Rhine 
To: Multiple recipients of list 
Subject: registering www pages


Since there's not formal registration for world wide web, here
are some suggested places to send announcements with the status
of your page:

        www-announce@wwwO.cern.ch
        comp.infosystems.announce
        www-request@info.cern.ch
        whats-new@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Also, be sure and keep meaningful titles in your highest level headers
since some indexers will index titles and major headers.

You might want to also check out the book "Managing Internet Information
Services" published by O'Reilly - it's in the bookstore and is where
I got the above mentioned newsgroups and  lists from.  It has good
overview of setting up web servers and home pages.

--Cindy Rhine
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Servers

Joel started by discussing the Netscape secure server. ADP and security are almost synonymous. ADP is very interested in using emerging technology to present information. For example, ADP provides the UNC-CH Email ID Database Lookup, which uses a Sybase interface. They can do much more with a secure system -- for example, grades and student information.

When ADP purchased Netscape, they had to certify that they really are ADP, the Administrative Data Processing department of UNC-Chapel Hill. Then they could get their public key from RSA. That has been done.

ADP will use the Netscape server to develop forms-based applications; they want to integrate enterprise information into the Web.

Joel pointed out that information provided by the Netscape server can only be viewed using the Netscape browser, but that will not be a problem because Netscape is the browser of choice of the UNC-CH campus (support by OIT).

ADP is also testing a Windows server.

Joel then described the public/private key encryption concept. "I give you my public key, but only my private key can decode my public key." He suggests that you not put your public key in your signature line on e-mail messages, but put it in your finger file and tell people to finger you to get your key. Then people will always get your latest public key. The reason you might change your public key is that if someone steals your private key, you need to make sure everyone else stops using
it. For example, if your public key was published in a phone book and it the matching private key was stolen (or just lost), people who used that old public key would not get the desired security.

The Netscape browser gets the public key of the server and generates a session key.

Besides the Netscape server, ADP will be using the 1.3 NCSA server and the Windows server.

The ADP secure web server is at "https://www-s1.adp.unc.edu/" Most links from this page are not secure (they are back to "www.adp.unc.edu", but the campus directory link via
Sybase is secure, for example). This way folks can actually see what
happens (security messages, "whole" key, etc.) when they use Netscape security.

Application Development with HTML

Joel then talked from his Master's thesis, Application Development with HTML, at http://www.adp.unc.edu/wwwclass, Chapter 5, "What is an HTML Application?" In that section, he scrolled down a few pages to the section beginning, "A major feature that differentiates HTML from static markup languages is the "&ltFORM&gt ...&lt/FORM&gt" identifier. " [It's 3 paragraphs above Example 5.2.]. And he worked through that section.

Essentially, he said that forms add interactive capabilities to HTML applications. The Web server processes data gathered from the browser and invokes an operating system script file with the parameter gleaned from the form. This is called the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) in the HTTP daemon.

Joel described the html code for a sample form (Example 5.2) and its presentation (shown in Figure 5.3) and then gave a live example by clicking on the "live example" hot link in his paper!

He also described the code that processes the form (Example 5.3). The processing can be done by a perl script, Bourne shell, C shell, C program, ... whatever. The program processes the values taken from the browser. There are environment variables that can be used in the program.

Joel then described and demonstrated an application that looks at who's logged on and fingers someone. The selections (userids) are given in a scroll bar. (See Example 5.5, Figure 5.5, and Example 5.6.)

Again, Joel ran the application by clicking on "run the form" in his paper. He selected Mary Overby's userid and showed her finger file, complete with her home page and work plan. Then he showed his finger file, which has his picture as a link to his home page, and has the Netscape PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) public encryption key at the bottom of the file.

Next, Joel gave us a brief tour of the ADP home page -- http://www.adp.unc.edu/, showing "Search and Directory Utilities," and then "UNC-CH Email ID Database Lookup," which generates an SQL query.

In the "ADP Applications" section (on the home page), he showed "UNC Organizations List," which runs on a server on a very old PC. This Visual Basic program shows the potential for being able to search files by running IDMS or Sybase on the ADP mainframe.

Joel then brought up http://www.charm.net/~web/Vlib/Providers/CGI.html, which has a lot of CGI scripts.

Atttendees:

Ron Bennet, Registrar's Office

Rodney Bishop, Registrar's Office

Lea Blanton, Friday Center

Bonnie Bowen, ADP

Paula Carson, SIS Coordinator

Kathleen Crook, Sheps Ctr. for HSR

Nancy Doyle, ADP/Registrar

Lynn Eades, HSL

Brian Flynn, Nursing

Scott Freeman, ADP

Shirley Gunter, General College

Judy Hallman, OIT

Jeff Harrell

Tom Hocking, Morehead Planetarium

D. Jarrell, OIT

Nancy Jesser, OIT

David Johnston, Arts & Sciences

Joanne Kucharski, Registrar's Office

Ken Langley, OIS

John Meeker, Pharmacy

Deb Morley, ADP

Tim Murphy, OCIS

Jim Murrell, OIT

Mary Overby, ADP

Wendy Perry, ADP

Clarence Potter, SOM/GCRC

Cindy Rhine, City & Regional Planning

Bob Schreiner, SPH

Eric Sessoms, General College

Dennis Sherman, TRLN

Tom Sherrod, ADP

Kathy Thomas, OIT

Chery Ward, CPC

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu)

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1995-06-21: Conversion tools and HTML 3.0

Summary of June 21 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of June 21 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:02:57 -0400
From: Judy Hallman 
To: web-walkers@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Summary of June 21 Web-Walkers meeting

To Web-Walkers:

Summary of June 21, 1995 meeting on Conversion tools and HTML 3.0
[Thanks to Bob Schreiner for his notes.]

I headed up this presentation.

Status of Ra

The machine is onsite but not online.
Need to develop policies and procedures before bringing it online.
Policies and procedures are now drafted and in the Web under "About the
UNC-CH Home Page" and then "Help for information providers
(http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/provider.html)." I would
appreciate comments and suggestions.

Conversion aids

These are online in the Help for information providers section -- at
http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/conv/conv.html.

I described how I convert the University Gazette from PageMaker to
HTML -- by exporting the entire file at once to MS Word on the Mac
and then reordering the articles.

DAVE looks promising. Maria Winslow (OIT student) is looking into this.

I described how to use the split program Maria Winslow wrote. You can
upload your document to the www.unc.edu machine (currently
usit.oit.unc.edu) and run it there or get a copy of the C code for your
own machine. Besides splitting a large file into small files and linking
them together, it builds a table of contents in the index.html file.
See the Gazette for an example at http://www.unc.edu/pubs/gaz/cur/.

Mary Overby said that ADP had developed perl scripts that work much the
same way.

I also showed the rtftohtml conversion program.

HTML 3.0

We briefly discussed HTML 3.0. HTML 3.0 is still evolving and
changing. Features such as tables, figures, mathematical equations,
and stylesheets are in development. Tables done for Netscape 1.1
don't work for Lynx.

We wondered how long we will have to support Lynx.

Atttendees:

Michael Brady, IOG

Ann Brookhart, Housing

Andy Broughton, SOWO

Kristin Chaffin, IOG

Kathleen Crook, Sheps Center

Nancy Doyle, ADP/Registrar

Susan Dunn, IOG

Elizabeth Evans, CPC

Judy Hallman, OIT

Elizabeth Hamilton, Highway Safety

Freb Hunt, Anesthesiology

Chad Kearsley, English Dept./IAT

J.J. Kim, Social Work

Bari Lawhorn, Housing

Tim Murphy, Dentistry

Bob Norwood, ADP

Mary Overby, OIT

Marilyn Penrod, IOG

Jon Pishney, IAT

Tom Rutledge, OIT

Bob Schreiner, SPH

Blake Weiler, Ecology

Lisa Wright, IOG

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu)

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1995-08-16: Policies and procedures

Summary of August 16 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of August 16 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:39:38 -0400
From: Judy Hallman 
To: web-walkers@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Summary of August 16 Web-Walkers meeting

To Web-Walkers:

Summary of August 16 meeting on Web policies and procedures

[Thanks to Tiffany Davis for her notes.]

I headed up this presentation.

I displayed some of the policies and procedures that are online,
under "About the UNC-CH Home Page" and then "Help for information
providers," at http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/.

We reviewed the "Creating World Wide Web Pages at UNC-CH"
document -- responsibility, guidelines for personal home pages,
multiple personal home pages, and procedures for getting started on
Ra.

Reviewing group Web pages, we discussed "Guidelines for e-mail
generated from Web pages
." There was considerable discussion of e-
mail.

Should groups be required to respond to e-mail from Web pages
within a certain time period? No -- no way to enforce it.

The document recommends having a group e-mail address of
groupid@unc.edu aliased to one person in the department. There are
some problems associated with this. For one thing, we recommend
logging messages and those logs will come out of the disk space quota
for the personal userid, not the group's disk space, the way things
are set up now. OIT needs to look at options -- like saving e-mail on
Ra so the space comes out of the group's quota.

It was recommended that the mailer (cgi-script) automatically reply
to the sender; notifying the sender that the message was received
and validating the e-mail address. Further information will be sent to
the web-walkers list.

Another recommendation involved having mail go to a Web database,
then folks could use Netscape or lynx to read the mail and a form to
respond to it.

With regard to getting a group id on Ra (and similarly, for getting a
link set up to the campus home page), there was concern about the
need to send the request on paper (letterhead). People should be
able to do this electronically.

There was objection to the statement "The Information Coordinator
takes editorial responsibility for ensuring compliance with the laws
of the US, and the State of North Carolina, the standards of conduct
(for students, faculty, and staff) of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and for conveying these responsibilities to contributors."
It places too much responsibility on the Information Coordinator and
implies that they would be legally responsible. The statement needs
to be softened and the laws need to be spelled out. I took the section
out.

A cgi-script that automatically updates date-last-modified was
suggested. Further information will be sent to the web-walkers list.

We reviewed my proposed changes to some of the high level campus
Web pages.

The group agreed that I should remove non-campus items from
within campus pages; the information under the buttons on the Home
Page should be campus information, except for one button that goes
off campus. There was considerable discussion about the name for
that button. We agreed to use "External Web Resources" for now. At
some later time, we might want to move "Sites related to UNC-CH"
from "External Web Resources" to the Home Page.

The addition of text to the home page describing the content of the
sections was approved. It was pointed out that I should add the DTH
and Gazette to the Publications description (done); similarly, add
SunSITE to the External Resources description (done).

Changes were suggested for the "External Web Resources" page and
these have been made (added "Raleigh" in front of "News &
Observer," took out link to "Office of State Personnel Job Vacancies"
adding to North Carolina State Government that that page provides a
link to "Office of State Personnel Job Vacancies", changed "Other
Favorite Web Sites" to "Other Useful Web sites.).

It was noted that:

People think that "Welcome to the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill" is a heading and don't know that it's clickable.

Some people only see the image map. It fits the screen so nicely that
they don't know there is anything below it. It was recommended that
we add a clickable at the top of the page to go down to the text
portion; that would make people realize that there IS a text portion.

The proposed method for removing existing non-campus info from
campus pages was approved -- for example "ACADEME THIS WEEK
has been moved to the Academics section of External Web
Resources; this notice will be removed September 5, 1995."

Folks felt OK about " Recreation, events, and calendars" as the header,
but suggested adding to the items how often the calendar is
published; this has NOT been done.

One editorial change has not been made yet. It was suggested that
we change "link into" to "link from;" for example, one would request
a link from the campus Web to a group's Web page.

Atttendees:

Tom Black, Univ. Reg.

Andy Broughton, SOWO

Tom Bowers, JOMC

Kathleen Crook, Sheps Center

Tiffany Davis, SOE

Nancy Doyle, Registrar/ADP

Pam, Dutcher, Davis Library Reference

Lynn Eades, HSL

Elizabeth Evans, Carolina Pop Ctr

Brian Flynn, Nursing

Judy Hallman, OIT

Doris Jarrell, OIT

Chad Kearsley, IAT/Engl. Dept.

Bob Kessler, Dept. of Chem.

J.J. Kim, SOWO

Amy Kreiling, Comp Sci

Joanne Kucharski, Univ. Registrar

Pat Mullin, Academic Affairs Library

Greg O'Rear, ADP

Jason W. Purdy, Independent

Gary Pattillo, Davis Library Reference

Brenda Roberts, ADP

Derek Rodriguez, Academic Affairs Library

Bob Stepno, JOMC

Mike Thomas, Univ. Registrar

Cheryl Ward, CPC

Michael G. Williams, Student Government

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu)

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1995-09-20: Multi-media and graphics in Web pages

Summary of September 20 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of September 20 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:23:08 -0400
From: Judy Hallman <hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Subject: Summary September 20 Web-Walkers meeting 

To Web-Walkers:

Summary of September 20 meeting on multi-media and graphics in Web pages.

Kathy Thomas, Office of Information Technology, presenter

[Thanks to
Elizabeth Evans for help with notes.]

Future meetings

The October and November meetings will be at 3:00 in 209 Manning. It's too
early to schedule a room beyond November.

We discussed possible meeting topics and came up with the following:

October 18: Software and tools for Web servers, including CGI scripts

November 15: Hot Java

December 20: Copyright; Laura Gasaway, Director of Law Library and
Professor of Law, UNC-CH

January 17: Designing for the largest number of users: Elizabeth Evans,
discussion leader

Questions and discussion

Jason Purdy mentioned his resource for cgi scripts at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/purdy

There was some discussion of HTML editors.

Someone asked how Kathy created the UNC-CH Home Page. She described what
she did; says she gets lots of e-mail asking this question; it was
suggested that she add that information to "About the UNC-CH Home Page."

Presentation

Kathy Thomas has a couple of presentations about use of
media in the Web at
http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/media/aaim.html and
http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/media/aaim-pc.html

She started with http://www.unc.edu/~kdt/mm.html and showed a couple of her
favorite web pages that use media; for example, Treasures of the Csars at
http://www.times.st-pete.fl.us/Treasures/Default.html -- in particular
http://www.times.st-pete.fl.us/treasures/TC.2.1.2.html.
And she showed Travels wih Samantha
(http://webtravel.org/samantha/table-of-contents.html), in
which the use of photos draws the viewer to reading the text.

Word (at http://www.word.com/index.html) has some animation.

Superpaint and Photoshop on the Mac or Photoshop and PaintShop-pro on a PC
can be used to produce clip art, which can then be saved as gif files and
incorporated into web documents.

For graphics, .gif files are best for charts and can be used inline. There
is an interlace option, which causes the full gif to be displayed quickly
at low resolution and gradually filled in at higher resolution. If this
option is not used, the gif develops at its highest resolution from the
top down. A non interlaced sample is at
http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/media/noldwell.gif and an interlaced
sample at http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/media/ioldwell.gif.

Interlacing is done with software called Gifconverter on the Mac and
L-view Pro or Paint-Shop Pro on the PC. This shareware is also used to
convert other formats, like pict files or most any other formats to gif
format.

Someone asked if interlacing affects resolution. Kathy answered that it
doesn't, but she has noticed recently that the final pass to complete the
image isn't always made.

jpeg files are also used for graphics. They are not supported on all
browsers, but they do a better jobs than gifs for photos. You can't
interlace jpegs; they are not currently supported inline on all
browsers.

Transparency: Use LD Pro on a PC or Transparency on a Mac to make a color
transparent. Transparency will take one color in the graphic, typically
the background color, and make it transparent so that the browser's
background shows through.

Although audio can be done in .wav, .aaif, and .au files, it is best to
use .au files because most users have the helper app configured to play
that file type.

Audio files are often big and take a lot of time to
download. Macintoshes come with a microphone and recording sound is quite
easy -- using Soundmachine.

Only use video when nothing else will do. Two formats are Quicktime and
MPEG. The file size will vary considerably between the two. Quicktime has
to be "flattened."

You can use Sparkle to create a video.

You can use clip art from CDROM.

Push/pull animation is Netscape only.

At the end of the meeting, Tom Hocking pointed out that NASA has a lot of
good sites -- he links to them from the Morehead Planetarium page at
http://tfnet.ils.unc.edu/~dataman/ast/ast.html.

And we briefly discussed the idea of having a video camera pointed at the
old well. Jason Purdy volunteered to check into what would be required to
do this. This does not appear to be a high priority item.

Attendees:

Deb Aikat, JOMC, daikat@email.unc.edu

Ann Brookhart, Housing, ann_brookhart@unc.edu

Tom Cox, OIT video, coxt@cs.unc.edu

Kathleen Crook, Sheps Center, kathleen_crook@unc.edu

Lynn Eades, HSL, beades@med.unc.edu

Elizabeth A. Evans, Carolina Pop Ctr, evans@unc.edu

Karen Feldman, OIT video, karenf@email.unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin@mhs.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman@unc.edu

Tom Hocking, Morehead Pltm., starman@unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler@unc.edu

Susan Lambert, ADP, stl.admin@mhs.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin@mhs.unc.edu

Tim Murphy, Dentistry, tmurphy.dentce@mhs.unc.edu

Greg O'Rear, ADP, jgo.systems@mhs.unc.edu

Gary Pattillo, Davis Library, pattillo@email.unc.edu

Jason W. Purdy, student, jason_purdy@unc.edu

Leslie Quattlebaum, Univ. Counseling Ctr., ucc@email.unc.edu

Brenda Roberts, ADP, bnr.admin@mhs.unc.edu

Wendy Robinson, JOMC, robin001@mc.duke.edu

Ranjeev Singh, Journalism, ranjeev_singh@unc.edu

John Stanley, ADP, jrs.admin@mhs.unc.edu

Bob Stepno, JOMC, rbstepno@email.unc.edu

Charles Streeter, Housing, streeter@email.unc.edu

Kathy Thomas, OIT, kathy_thomas@unc.edu

Penny Ward, Research Services, crunchy@email.unc.edu

Rob Withers, Davis Library, rob_withers@unc.edu

  


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1995-10-18: Software and tools for Web servers

Summary of October 18 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of October 18 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 13:16:00 -0500
From: Judy Hallman 
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Subject: Summary of October 18 Web-Walkers meeting

To Web-Walkers:

Summary of October 18 meeting on software and tools for Web servers.

I headed up this discussion. Jason Purdy demonstrated several pages he
developed for this meeting. See
http://sunsite.unc.edu/purdy/walkers.html
.
[Note: Jason has since accepted the student position of Web Wizard,
working with me, Kathy Thomas, and Jim Murrell on the campus Web pages
and software and tools available on the www.unc.edu machine.]

-- Server software: Most of the servers on campus are running NCSA
software.

-- Indexing and retrieval:
Chris Colomb (OIT) has installed Glimpse and Harvest on Ra; to try it out,
see http://www.unc.edu/Harvest/brokers/UNCWWW/; instructions need to
be developed on how to maintain indexes.

-- Statistics and reporting:
Jason Purdy showed the statistics and reporting links (getstats and
wwwstats) from his page at http://sunsite.unc.edu/purdy/walkers.html.
wwwstats comes with a file of country codes.

Tom Rutledge showed wusage, simple stats he is using for the help
desk server.

-- Testers for dead links, mappers, and similar tools:

Tim Murphy described the URL-Minder service at
http://www.netmind.com/URL-minder/URL-minder.html. The Web pages say:


The URL-minder keeps track of resources on the World Wide Web, and
sends you e-mail whenever your personally registered resources
change. You can have the URL-minder keep track of any Web resource
accessible via HTTP, FTP, or GOPHER, (anything you like!) including
searches on many popular Web databases!


Someone mentioned WebWatch on Windows, and Web Manager was also
mentioned.

Jason mention MOMspider (http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/MOMspider/),
which is linked to from Jason's page at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/purdy/walkers.html.


MOMspider is a web-roaming robot that specializes in the
maintenance of distributed hypertext infostructures (i.e. wide-area
webs). The program is written in Perl and, once customized for your
site, should work on any UNIX-based system with Perl 4.036.


I mentioned that Carolyn Kotlas (carolyn_kotlas at unc.edu) likes the link
mapper Web Page Manager from Silknet Software, Inc. --
http://www.silknet.com/products.htm. Costs about $80. You can get it for
a free trial.

PageMill and SiteMill were also mentioned. See http://www.ceneca.com/.


Adobe PageMill Web page authoring software was specifically
designed to address the needs of non-technical people who want to
create or maintain content on the Web.

Adobe SiteMill provides an integrated application for web page
authoring and web sitemanagement.


-- CGI scripts:
--Page counters: There was considerable discussion about page
counters. Bob Kessler mention a counter that's available from
http://www.webtools.org/ and says that some stat packages are
available at the same site. Tom Rutledge showed how he is using
software from http://www.semcor.com/~muquit/Count.html. [Note: Jason
Purdy has put this software on Ra. He announced it to the Web-Walkers
list via e-mail on November 9.


"http://www.unc.edu/about/provider/cgi/counter.html

You can only access the Count.cgi binary, though, from the UNC WWW
Server, so if you want to use UNC's Count.cgi, and your pages lie
on another
server, you need to send me mail, so I can configure the binary."]

-- Mailers: Jason demonstrated a mailer he has developed (see General
Purpose WWW Comment Gateway Idea at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/purdy/walkers.html). It gives an immediate
reply back to the sender and puts the question/comment into a dbm
database. A similar system could be developed for the campus.
Departments could have their own sections of the database; several
people in the department could have the password for accessing and
responding to the department's messages.

I asked why we don't just use the mailto: tag. Response: It uses the
address of the sending machine and doesn't have any flexibility.

Some people on campus would like to tailor their mail forms and not
use the OITmailer. It looks like gforms (see below) will be helpful
for them.

-- gforms: Kathy Thomas demonstrated gforms and described how she is
using it to develop the Women's Issues Survey
(http://www.unc.edu/staff/survey/). gforms is described in the book
_The Web Server Book_. OIT (probably Jason) will develop a section on
gforms for the "Information providers section" of "About the UNC-CH
Home Page."

Attendees:

Deb Aikat, Journalism, daikat at email.unc.edu

Rodney Bishop, Registrar's Office, rab.our at mhs.unc.edu

Andy Broughton, Sch. of Social Work, abrought at email.unc.edu

Harry Bulbrook, Law School, bulbrook at email.unc.edu

Paula Carson, SIS Office, plc.our at mhs.unc.edu

Mike Conway, ADP, mcc.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Donna Cornick, Davis Library, cornick at email.unc.edu

Frank Di Mauro, AHEC, fadim at med.unc.edu

Pam Dutcher, Davis Library, pam.davis at mhs.unc.edu

Erika Grams, history/WUNC, erika at email.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Tom Hocking, Morehead Pltm., starman at unc.edu

Kevin Hunter, FPR Design & Stats, hunter.fpg at mhs.unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

J.J. Kim, Sch. of Social Work, JJ_Kim at unc.edu

Tong Liu, CPC, tongliu at xerxes.cpc.unc.edu

Tim Murphy, Dentistry, tmurphy.dentce at mhs.unc.edu

Jim Murrell, OIT, jim_murrell at unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Roger Nelsen, Alumni Association, roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Greg O'Rear, ADP, jgo.systems at mhs.unc.edu

Gary Pattillo, Davis Library, pattillo at email.unc.edu

Jon Pishney, IAT, jon_pishney at unc.edu

Jason W. Purdy, student, jason_purdy at unc.edu

Brenda Roberts, ADP, bnr.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Tom Rutledge, OIT, rutledge at unc.edu

Bill Schley, Davis Library, schley.davis at mhs.unc.edu

Barbara Semonch, Journalism, semonch at gibbs.unc.edu

Ranjeev Singh, Journalism, ranjeev_singh at unc.edu

Kathy Thomas, OIT, kathy_thomas at unc.edu

Penny Ward, Research Services, crunchy at email.unc.edu

Rob Withers, Academic Affairs Library, rob_withers at unc.edu


1995-11-15: Hot Java

Summary of November 15Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of November 15 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 10:56:23 -0500

From: Judy Hallman

To: web-walkers@unc.edu

Subject: Summary of November 15 meeting on Hot Java

To Web-Walkers:

Summary of November 15 meeting on Hot Java

Thanks to Bob Schreiner for help with notes

Preliminaries:

We briefly discussed a new structure for the departments and organizations
page -- at http://www.unc.edu/~hallman/depts/. There were some good
suggestions -- add "people" to the search options (the campus directory),
and add descriptions of the categories.

Followup: I checked with a few people in University Relations and
there are some problems with what I have proposed. I need to do
some more work on this page.

Question: Can students keep pages after graduation?

Answer: No. But class pages can be continued.

Announcement: Special presentation by John Loonsk November 29.

Presentation:

Paul Jones headed up this presentation, assisted by Bob Henshaw and
Mark McCarthy.

Paul pointed out the network load for pushdown annimation that is
elminated by using Java. Applications software needed is downloaded
automatically and run on the local machine; he noted that the moving clock
he was displaying on the screen was being controlled by software running
on the local machine.

The outline of the first part of Paul's presentation is at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pjones/java/.

Java helps programmers, designers, and browsers (the people).

Java is a programming language like C++; it is object oriented, but simpler
than C++.

Java helps designers. Don't think of it as programming; it's like HTML
-- easy. applets are coded using . Look familiar?

Browsers (people) get software (for example, to play sound) on demand. No
more helper apps to keep up with. True local interactivity.

For some samples, see Mark's page -- http://sunsite.unc.edu/marky-
java.html. The demo was slow because it was bringing down 40 images and
the network was slow.

Java is not available for the Mac yet; expected early in '96.

Java was designed with security in mind. Browsers can't write anything.
Your applet code is checked as it is compiled.

With Java, it's easy to move images around on your local machine; the
images are download, but then you can move them around as you wish -- it's
not like dragging gif files; it's more like moving around refigerator
magnets.

Applets are usually small. http://www.gamelan.com/ is a distribution
center for applets.

Other URLs to check out are:

http://java.sun.com/

http://www.javasoft.com/

http://sunsite.unc.edu/javafaq/

Hot Java is Sun's browser; Java is the language.

The speakers pointed out that the Netscape code isn't clean yet. You need
Netscape 2, Win 95, Sun, or Windows NT. It's not available yet on Macs,
Windows 3.1, or linux.

Bob pointed out a page of helpful information for potential Java
developers at http://ils.unc.edu/blaze/java/javadesign.html, and that you
cannot use the Save As command to download an applet to a local drive like
you can an html page.

While it is clear that not everyone can use Java yet, we were encouraged
to try things out and get ready for when everyone can use it.

Followup notes: Carolyn Kotlas , IAT, has added
the URLs for the sites shown at this presentation to a HotJava resource
list she already had on the IAT's Web server. The updated page is at URL:

http://www.iat.unc.edu/library/liblinks/hotjava.html

There is also a local newsgroup, unc.java, for developing, porting and
using the java object oriented language and the HotJava WWW browser

Attendees:

Deb Aikat, JOMC, daikat at email.unc.edu

Arturo Barrios, OIT, arturo_barrios at unc.edu

Lea Blanton, Friday Center, lea_blanton at unc.edu

Tom Bowers, JOMC, tom_bowers at unc.edu

Ann Brookhart, Housing, ann_brookhart at unc.edu

Andy Broughton, Sch. of Social Work, abrought at email.unc.edu

Paula Carson, SIS Office, plc.our at mhs.unc.edu

Kirstin Chaffin, Inst. of Govt, chaffin.iog at mhs.unc.edu

Frank Di Mauro, AHEC, fadim at med.unc.edu

Nancy Doyle, Registrar/ADP, nmd.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Susan Dunn, Inst. of Govt, dunn.iog at mhs.unc.edu

Lynn Eades, HSL, beades at med.unc.edu

Kathy Edwards, OIT Docteam, kathy_edwards at unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Howard Fried, Biochemistry, refried at email.unc.edu

Sandy Gettys, ADP, sandy_gettys at unc.edu

Erika Grams, history/WUNC, erika at email.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

David Johnston, Psychology/Davie Hall, david_johnston at unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

Carolyn Kotlas, IAT, carolyn_kotlas at unc.edu

Barri Lawhorne, Housing, barri_lawhorne at unc.edu

Tong Liu, CPC, tongliu at xerxes.cpc.unc.edu

Chuck Lovelace, Morehead Foundation, cel at unc.edu

Carol Martell, HSRC, carol_martell at unc.edu

John Meeker, Sch. of Pharmacy, john_meeker at unc.edu

Sally Muller, OIT, sally_muller at unc.edu

Tim Murphy, Dentistry, tmurphy.dentce at mhs.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Mary Overby, OIT, mary_overby at unc.edu

Forrest Page, Morehead Foundation, fhpage at email.unc.edu

Anne Parker, OIT, anne_parker at unc.edu

Gary Pattillo, Davis Library Reference, pattillo at email.unc.edu

Wendy Perry, ADP, wwp.admin at mhs.unc.edu

John Pishney, IAT, jon_pishney at unc.edu

Bridget Regan, ILS, regab at ruby.ils.unc.edu

Wendy Robinson, Journalism, robin001 at mc.duke.edu

Damon Sauve, OIT Training, damon_sauve at unc.edu

Bill Schley, Library Reference, bill_schley at unc.edu

Bob Schreiner, Public Health, bob_schreiner at unc.edu

Kay Stanley, OIT, kay_stanley at unc.edu

Bob Stepno, JOMC, rbstepno at email.unc.edu

Charles Streeter, Housing, charles_streeter at unc.edu

Chuck Thomas, Wilson Library, thomc at ils.unc.edu

Bill Tolbert, HSRC, bill_tolbert at unc.edu

Penny Ward, Research Services, crunchy at email.unc.edu

Chris Welbon, FPG/NEC*TAS, ctwelbon at email.unc.edu

Mark Whelan, Sheps Center, mark_whelan at unc.edu

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1995-11-29: School of Medicine

Summary of November 29 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of November 29 Web-Walkers meeting

From: Judy Hallman

To: web-walkers@gibbs.oit.unc.edu

Cc: loonsk@med.unc.edu

Subject: Summary of November 29 presentation: School of Medicine

To Web-Walkers:

Summary of November 29 special presentation on the School of
Medicine's innovative use of Web tools, by John Sharo

Thanks to John and also to Bob Schreiner for arranging for this presentation.

John described and showed several aspects of the School of Medicines's Web
service at http://www.med.unc.edu/. While many resources are publically
available, access to several areas is restricted. Rather than having to
deal with additional userids and passwords, the Web server (Cern server)
was modified to check the Unix system accounts that people at the Med.
School already have.

The Events section is a Bulletin Board system. Rights to post to it are
disseminated. Posting uses HTML forms; and events expire automatically.

The departments and offices section has icons showing whether or not the
group has a home page, mailto, and/or faculty/staff section; the latter
links to personal home pages, which can reside on a different server;
lists of people are aggregated.

There is a developers page that lets the information provider set up an O
drive; there is a help app that uses a Novell server which maps the O
drive to a UNIX server. Word for Windows with the Internet Assistant is
available. They are launching PC applications off of a WWW-based menu.
There is an images database. This section is used in conjunction with an
education effort for depatments.

The server recognizes the browser and varies the display by machine
type/user (it knows who the user is from the authentication).

The service lauches some legacy systems that require telnetting, but the
login is done automatically.

The system has searching capabilities.

Services are provided to support students. There is problem tracking;
particularly for students out in the field; Bulletin Board discussion on
patients and diseases -- discussion lists with clickable URLs.

Attendees:
There were about 60 attendees.

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1995-12-20: Copyright

Summary of December 20 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of December 20 Web-Walkers meeting on Copyright

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:37:31 -0500

From: Judy Hallman

To: web-walkers at unc.edu

Cc: Laura Gasaway (unclng at email.unc.edu)

Summary of December 20 meeting on Copyright

Presenter: Laura Gasaway

Many thanks to Lolly for the presentation and for corrections to this
summary.

Lolly pointed out that she is director of the law library and a professor
of law at UNC-CH, but that she does not speak for the University.
Direct questions to Susan Ehringhaus' office about the law, University
policy, and the like.

Lolly spoke about existing copyright law.

What is eligible?

Originality and creativity are required.

Fixation -- for example, on paper or disk.

Term of copyright is life of the author plus 50 years (likely increasing
to 70 years soon). For a corporate author, 75 years after publication. For a
group, term is based on the life of the last living author.

Notice of copyright:

Optional since 1988. Though it is not required, it's a good idea to
include a copyright notice to remind people.

The copyright act is technology neutral.

Rights of the copyright holder:

reproduction, distribution, adaptation, performance, display.

Fair Use:

Specifics that are not an infringement of copyright depend on the purpose
and character of use, nature of the copyrighted work, amount, and market
effect. Must be judged on a case-by-case basis.

The Internet and copyright:

Copyright belongs to the author; this includes submissions to lists.
Just because you find something on the Internet doesn't mean it is there
by permission.

Links are pointers; they're fine.

If we put copyrighted information in the Web without permission, we can
be sued personally; the University also might be liable. Clear any questions
with the University Counsel re specific inclusions, etc.

Use the registered trademark symbol (R with cirle around it) to show use
of registered trademarks, such as University mascots and logos.

Companies are getting started that will police copyright on the net.

If a work is copyrighted, seek permission. Keep permission on file. If it
was granted via e-mail, print the message and file it.

Get permission to use UNC-CH campus photos or take your own pictures.

Web sites:

Bleeding edge Internet issues: http://www.benedict.com/webiss.htm#webiss
(Note: that's htm not html)

There is a huge amount in the public domain that may be freely
incorporated into home pages, particularly material with expired copyrights.
See http://www.netgate.net/~bmb/PubDomain.html for a table of when works
pass into public domain.

Federal documents are in the public domain, but state documents may not be
in the public domain.

Infringement is a serious matter.

US Copyright Office: telnet locis.loc.gov

or marvel.loc.gov (this second one didn't work for me; asked for a
login; but locis.loc.gov gets the jobs done)

http://www.directory.net/copyright (Copyright Clearance Center)

Internet discussion groups:

send to cni-copyright at cni.org
  subscribe cni-copyright your-first-name your-last-name

send to listserver at birds.wm.edu   [yes, it is listserver, not listserv]
  subscribe cyberia-l at birds.wm.edu your-first-name your-last-name
(includes computer people too)

Attendees:

Deb Aikat, JOMC, daikat at email.unc.edu

Chris Anderson, ADP, cba.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Lea Blanton, Friday Center, lea_blanton at unc.edu

Ivis Bohlen, irbohlen at med.unc.edu

Tom Bowers, JOMC, tom_bowers at unc.edu

Brenda Carney, Friday Center, btc.ce at mhs.unc.edu

Anne Carter, OIT, anne_carter at unc.edu

Frances Coombs, brcrkwmn at nando.net

Kathleen Crook, kathleen_crook at unc.edu

Frank Di Mauro, fadim at med.unc.edu

Lynn Eades, HSL, beades at med.unc.edu

Kathy Edwards, OIT, kathy_edwards at unc.edu

Libby Evans, evans at unc.edu

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Chad Kearsley, chad_kearsley at unc.edu

Amy Kreiling, Computer Science, kreiling at cs.unc.edu

Lori McRae, Computer Science, mcrae at cs.unc.edu

Greg O'Rear, ADP, jgo.systems at mhs.unc.edu

Regina Oliver, Alumni Assn., regina_oliver at unc.edu

Anne Parker, anne_parker at unc.edu

Roger Nelsen, Alumni Assoc., roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Cindy Rhine, DCRP, rhino at ils.unc.edu

Wendy Robinson, JOMC, robin001 at mc.duke.edu

Bob Schreiner, bob_schreiner at unc.edu

Ranjeev Singh, JOMC, ranjeev_singh at unc.edu

Cheryl Ward, cheryl_ward at unc.edu

Penny Ward, ORS, crunchy at email.unc.edu

Loren Watterson, CPC, loren_watterson at unc.edu

1996-01-17: designing for the largest number of users

Summary of January 17 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of January 17 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:53:42 -0500

From: Judy Hallman (hallman at gibbs.oit.unc.edu)

To: web-walkers at unc.edu

Cc: "Elizabeth A. Evans" (uevans at email.unc.edu)

Subject: Summary of January 17 Web-Walkers meeting

To Web-Walkers:

Summary of January 17 meeting on
designing for the largest number of users

Preliminaries:

The group agreed to begin a series of weekly meetings to redesign the
campus home page. The next meeting was planned for January 31, but I was
not able to get a room, so I changed it to February 7, 3:00, room 209
Manning. I have to wait until after Jan. 31 to block off 3-5 in 209
Manning for additional weekly meetings.

Discussion, lead by Elizabeth (Libby) Evans

Libby distributed the following handout:

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Walking a Tightrope on the Web: How to Design a Web Page for your Audience

UNC-CH Web Walkers, January 17, 1996

Netscape, Mosaic, AOL, lynx, or others? Do you care what your users use?

If you do care, how do you maximize the benefits to the users while
minimizing staff time?

eg. If you keep text and graphics versions of a page, how are the two
versions maintained?

Graphics: How long is a user willing to wait for a nice graphic?

Should large graphics be inline or links?

Should you define alt text for images for non-graphical users?

How do you take a document designed for print and redesign it for online
access? Do you try to design it to be read, scanned, or printed? Are
there differences?

What kind of organizational structure will make information easy to find?

How do you create a structure that's useful to both internal and
external users?

(Are internal and external users likely to need a different organization?)

What do you do about equations?

----

Discussion:

What browsers are people using? Stats can show the browser. OIT should
provide info on the browsers people are using when they access
www.unc.edu.

There are 25,000 UNC-CH free e-mail accounts on Isis. The people
accessing the Web from these accounts are often using Lynx.

Statistics indicate that 70% of Web users are using Netscape; but the
remaining 30% that are not using Netscape are a LOT of accesses.

Some commercial Internet service providers (like America OnLine) use
their own browsers. How can those of us on campus designing Web pages
check what they look like with these browsers? Perhaps there should be a
"lab" on campus that's equipped with a large variety of browsers for web
page designers to use to check out their pages.

Remember that people don't always download graphics, even if they can.

Libby mentioned the Java users group meeting the night before. Attendence
was good.

Libby brought up her bookmark file
(http://www.cpc.unc.edu/~evans/ww.html) and started with
Health Sciences Library Calendar of Classes Events
(http://www.hsl.unc.edu/classes.html). The image map for the
calendar is very nice, but it is difficult for Lynx users to find the
schedule, because the calendar is not replicated in text.

While we were talking about Library calendars, I mentioned the nice
calendar of worldwide Library-related events
(http://www.hsl.unc.edu/libcal96.html) maintained by Barbara Tysinger
(btysingr.hsl at mhs.unc.edu). If a conference has a Web page, the calendar
links to it. (I had a bad link to this page in the campus Web; but the
correction from Barbara was waiting in my mailbox and I've fixed the
link).

Libby showed the really nice job that Geography has done with their table
of theses (http://www.geog.unc.edu/thesis.html) and dissertations. The tables
done for Netscape are very nice. But a text version is also provided
(http://www.geog.unc.edu/thestxt.html).

Someone mentioned that the content of tables isn't searchable; someone
else suggested including a keyword section for the content of a table in
the text.

Libby showed the home page for University of Tennessee Knoxville
(http://www.utk.edu/). The design of the home page is very nice in
graphics mode, but nor very good in Lynx. She noted that the FindIt button
is both at the top of the page and at the bottom of the page, making it
easy to find. In Lynx, [IMAGE] appears VERY often. The page would look
better if the used alt="".

Somehow we got into ethics -- what you keep in your logs and what you do
with the information in the logs. It's possible to pretty clearly
indentify who is looking at what, and that's at least not ethical, if not
illegal.

It was also pointed out that resolution and color can vary between Macs
and PCs, and from one machine to another. Background colors, can make text
difficult to read. Check, in particular, how the links look. As an aside,
Libby pointed out that it is possible to make text *look* like a link
when it is not -- why would anyone want to do that???

Two of Libby's bookmarks had the same name (Point Communications Corp.)
but brought up different pages (http://www.pointcom.com/text/reviews/h.htm
and http://www.pointcom.com/text/reviews/hmfm.htm). Remember that your
title will become the name of the bookmark, and make sure your title
describes the page.

As an example of a particularly well designed page, Libby showed the page
of Davis Rust (http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~drust/). Look at this one in
both graphics mode and with Lynx. Note that the Welcome graphic (picture
and graphic of his name) is replaced by just his name in the text only
version, and the nice graphic word "Welcome" is replace with the simple
word "Welcome" in the text version. His page looks very good in Lynx as
well as in Netscape.

On the other hand, Primo Angeli (http://www.primo.com/) was designed only
for graphics mode. The Lynx version is all caps and difficult to
read. It says:

IF YOU ARE NOT USING A

NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR BROWSER,YOU CAN OBTAIN ONE BY [2]CLICKING HERE

How do you "click here" with a text only browser? Some people actually
try to do that.

While Libby typically does not like backgrounds (they can be irriatating),
she really liked the way the background is used in the Morehead
Planetarium home page (http://rtpnet.intercenter.net/~dataman/) -- black
with little stars. That home page has a pleasing effect. The white text is
large enough to be easy to read on the black background.

Question asked but not answered: How do you specify the true Carolina Blue?

Next Libby showed the Hall of Fame at http://www.pointcom.com/text/reviews/h.htm.
You can get ideas from this site for good design and also for bad design.
It's not clear who does the judging; looks like one person.

General discussion:

Printing and Duplicating is using Adobe Acrobat and providing instructions
on how to download the reader. UNC-CH users who have publications printed
by P&D can ask to have those publications provided in PDF format for
display by Acrobat. OIT puts up both formats, Adobe Acrobat and html.

Hardly anyone in attendence had dealt with equations. Libby said that one
professor put up both graphics and Lynx version of math formulas.

We briefly discussed the need to have some pages in the campus Web that
use the latest and greatest technology (like Java and VRML) to attract
people to the UNC-CH Web.

There was considerable interest expressed in the new Java group, headed
by Jason Purdy (jason_purdy at unc.edu). John Smith (computer science) is the
faculty advisor. Java applets are being developed on a CS machine.

Three or four of the attendees had also attended the Java meeting (Jan.
16) and were impressed. Looks like that group will meet every Tuesday
evening at 7:00 in Sitterson 011.

Attendees:

Deb Aikat, JOMC, daikat at email.unc.edu

Tom Bowers, JOMC, tom_bowers at unc.edu

Andy Broughton, abrought at email.unc.edu

Brenda Carney, btc.ce at mhs.unc.edu

Kathleen Crook, Sheps Center, kathleen_crook at unc.edu

Frank Di Mauro, UNC-Hosps, fadim at med.unc.edu

Kathy Edwards, OIT, kathy_edwards at unc.edu

Elizabeth Evans, CPC, uevans at email.unc.edu

Howard M. Fried, refried at email.unc.edu

Drew Gilmore, Morehead Planetarium, drewg at email.unc.edu

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing Services, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Mark Ingram, Development, mark.dev at mhs.unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

Amy Kreiling, Comp Sci, kreiling at cs.unc.edu

Tong Liu, CPC, tongliu at unc.edu

Lori McRae, Computer Science, mcrae at cs.unc.edu

Scott Niven, ADP, esn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Charles Pulliam, chas_pulliam at unc.edu

Tom Rutledge, OIT, rutledge at unc.edu

Cheryl Ward, CPC, cheryl_ward at unc.edu

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1996-02-07: planning a new home page

Summary of February 7 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of February 7 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:26:59 -0500

From: Judy Hallman (hallman at gibbs.oit.unc.edu)

To: web-walkers at unc.edu

Subject: Summary of February 7 meeting on planning a new home page

To Web-Walkers:

Next meeting: February 14, 1996, 3:00 pm, 209 Manning: Planning a new
home page for UNC-CH

Topics: audiences, topics for each audience, and mission of
the UNC-CH Web site.


Summary of February 7 meeting on planning a new home page for UNC-CH.
This summary will be posted at
http://www.unc.edu/about/walkers/1996feb07.html

Thanks to Cynthia Taylor for help with notes.

I led this discussion on what's wrong with the current home page
(http://www.unc.edu/) and looking at other campus home pages that people
particularly like.

I distributed copies of the following agenda/handout.

Redesigning the UNC-CH Home Page

Web-Walkers, February 7, 1996

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman at unc.edu), Office of Information Technology

Introductions

Need help with notes

Assumptions

* The University's Web presence will be incorporated into the
campus strategic planning process as a principal means by which
the University will pursue certain strategic goals

* The Campus-Wide Information Service will continue to grow at a
rapid rate; departments and organizations that do not currently
have Web pages, will create them; more courses will develop web
pages, and more instructional materials and research
information will be placed in the campus Web

* The new home page may only last a year (we are on our 6th or
7th design now, since '87)

The plan

* Meet weekly until we're done. If the group is too big and this
approach doesn't work, select a committee

* Post summaries of meetings at
http://www.unc.edu/about/walkers/

* Design content of at least the first two levels; plan graphics

* Implement the design as we plan it, for discussion at the next
meeting

* Get feedback from faculty, staff, students, and administrators

* Clifton Metcalf, Associate Vice Chancellor for University
Relations, and his staff have the ultimate responsibility for
the University's image on the Web

Time Schedule

* Aim to have a draft for review in five weeks; complete in
eight weeks

What's wrong with what we've got?

* Handout: E-mail to info at unc.edu; mostly from people not on
campus; see http://www.unc.edu/about/walkers/infomail/

* Can't find directory

* Can't find admissions info (application form, tuition, entry
requirements)

* Redundancy between Student, Staff, and Faculty sections

* People don't know that Welcome to UNC-CH is a clickable.

* Can't find sports information.

* Can't find history and mission.

* No good way to make announcements -- like University is
open/closed during bad weather.

* Graphic is slow to load.

Some questions and considerations

* Should Events be a home page item?

* Should Publications be a separate item or should you get to a
publication from a department or organization; for example
Newsletters (do we have all the newsletters here? sometimes
issue number or date is part of the URL)

* Will need a good place for Public Service information, and for
Instructional information, and for Research information -- for
public consumption.

* It's not clear whether pages are FOR (students, faculty,
staff) or ABOUT. Do we need to make this distinction?

* Are there different types of pages for different audiences?

* Should we have a "Welcome Mat?" -- see http://www.charweb.org/

* How do you feature an item (like a special event)? See
http://www.charweb.org/home.html

* How do we draw people to the UNC-CH Web -- for example,
highlighting the lastest and greatest stuff, like Java?

What do people like?

From: Kay Stanley (extraid at email.unc.edu)

The pages I like the best have the following characteristics:
   photos that show what the campus looks like
   good use of graphics with the photos and/or the buttons
   "sculptured" backgrounds (i.e. subtle emblems carrying out the theme)
   no conflict between th color theme and the link colors
   good use of spacing and font size

www.cwru.edu (Case Western) *
www.virginia.edu *
www.vt.edu (Virginia Tech.) *
www.nd.edu (Notre Dame) *
www.ucsb.edu (U Calif. Santa Barbara) *
www.hampshire.edu
www.ilstu.edu (Illinois State)
www.fit.edu (Fla. Inst. of Tech.)
www.ewu.edu (Eastern Wash. U.)

From: "Howard M. Fried" (refried at email.unc.edu)

There is a survey of the best university home pages at:
    http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/results.html
Quoting from the survey, the characteristics that make the 
top pages top are:

   Attractive, yet limited graphics.
   Easy to find information. In particular people seem to 
        want to be able to find:
              Admissions information
              Alumni information
              Campus Maps
              Email directories
              Information about the surrounding community
              Research and Departmental Programs
              US Postal Address

I handed out printed copies of monthly summaries of questions and
comments to info at unc.edu. They are mostly from people off campus and show
the types of questions people have and what they can't find. These
summaries (Sept. 1995 - Jan. 1996) are online at
http://www.unc.edu/about/walkers/infomail/
. They're also fun reading.

Jim Sadler said that he was meeting with the Information Resource
Coordinating Council that same afternoon about the committee's report on
Campus Web policies.

Kathy Thomas and Trey Harris showed several sites (thanks to Kay
Stanley and Howard Fried for their suggestions) and we discussed what we
liked and didn't like.

There is concern about graphics -- main pages need to load quickly.

UNC-CH needs search capabilities and statistics. OIT people are working
on these.

We also need a clickable campus map.

Lynne Neill pointed out the increasing value of the campus Web for
students to be able to see personal information (view grades, most
recent bill, etc.)

Arizona (http://www.arizona.edu/) has nice buttons at the bottom of each
page for significant items, Calendar, Phonebook, Comments, Internet,
What's New, Map, Index. We also like their item "Reaching Out - Taking
the University outside the campus."

Duke (http://www.duke.edu/) has their credentials right up front -- nice
home page. The items in a subject area are listed and are clickable.

Trey likes Washington's "almost live view" (http://www.washington.edu/).

We liked Baylor's organization (http://www.baylor.edu/) and the "NEW"
graphic, and their home page loads quickly.

And we liked Carnegie Mellon's home page (http://www.cmu.edu/).

Yahoo has a lot of information on their home page and it's well organized
(http://www.yahoo.com/).

While talking about campus directories, someone said that Cornell
requires their people to be listed in the directory (at UNC-CH you can
choose not to be listed).

Bowling Green State University (http://www.bgsu.edu/) has a nice events
calendar (http://www.cs.bgsu.edu/events/). It is maintained via html
forms. Userids are authorized to enter events. Hallman has met the person
who is working on the programs to maintain the calendar and will get more
info.

We looked at Charlotte's Web's Welcome mat (http://www.charweb.org/) and
their home page (http://www.charweb.org/home.html). The picture on the
home page and featured article change often (weekly?). We'd like the
UNC-CH system to be dynamic. Perhaps a magazine format would work --
having features and regular sections.

We agreed that we need good photos; and we want to look at load time
between gif and jpeg files.

It was suggested that we carry through basic characteristics (like
Arizona's buttons) to lower levels.

Homework assignment for next meeting (Feb. 14, same time and place):

(1) List audiences

(2) List topics for each audience

(3) Mission statement for our Web site

Attendees:

Deb Aikat, JOMC, daikat at email.unc.edu

Margaret Balcom, Gazette, mpbalcom at email.unc.edu

Janet Blue, School of Nursing, jan_blue at unc.edu

Andy Broughton, Social Work, abrought at email.unc.edu

Frank Di Mauro, UNC Hospitals, fadim at med.unc.edu

Kathy Edwards, OIT, kathy_edwards at unc.edu

Erika Grams, WUNC/History, erika at email.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Trey Harris, OIT, trey at unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

Robert S. Kintz, SPH, rkintz at email.unc.edu

Tong Liu, CPC, tongliu at xerxes.cpc.unc.edu

Matthew Mauzy, Dept. of Physics/Astro, mmauzy at physics.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Roger Nelsen, GAA, roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Regina Oliver, GAA, regina_oliver at unc.edu

Cindy Rhine, DCRP, rhino at ils.unc.edu

Jim Sadler, Health Affairs, jim_sadler at unc.edu

Barbara Semonche, JOMC, semonch at gibbs.oit.unc.edu

Tom Smither, Rom. Langs, tasmithe at email.unc.edu

Cindy Taylor, OIT, cetaylor at gibbs.oit.unc.edu

Kathy Thomas, OIT, kathy_thomas at unc.edu

Penny Ward, ORS, crunchy at email.unc.edu

Judy Hallman (judy_hallman at unc.edu, http://www.unc.edu/~hallman)

Office of Information Technology

1996-02-14: audiences, topics for each audience, and mission

Summary of February 14 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of February 14 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:32:29 -0500

From: Judy Hallman (hallman at gibbs.oit.unc.edu)

To: web-walkers at unc.edu

Subject: Summary of Feb. 14 meeting on planning a new home page

To Web-Walkers:

Next meeting: February 21, 1996, 3:00 pm, 209 Manning: Planning a new
home page for UNC-CH

Topic: Outline new Home Page

NOTE: There will NOT be a meeting February 28

Summary of February 14 meeting on planning a new home page for UNC-CH.
This summary will be posted at
http://www.unc.edu/about/walkers/1996feb14.html

ADP-SI has started a prototype at http://www.adp.unc.edu/sis/unchome.html

We worked from a list (see below) I put together, based on e-mail from Libby
Evans, Lynne Neill, and Penny Ward. Several additions were suggested.
They are marked with * in the list below.

The bulk of the list is for visitors. There are "Things we want to
promote" that aren't necessarily things people are looking for. Some are
at the end of the list.

The campus Web's mission statement needs refinement and a link to the
University's mission statement. We'll work on that separately.

Questions were raised about links to commercial services. Does a
link mean University endorsement? Guidelines are needed. There is an
existing policy regarding housing in a "faculty relocation" document.
Hallman suggested that commercial services could be linked to from the
community service (http://RTPnet.org) and the University could direct
people to RTPnet.

Although Student Stores cannot put a catalog online, there should be some
information about where/how poeple can buy products with UNC-CH logos.

There was discussion about putting links to personal pages in for Alumni.
Alumni personal pages should probably be treated the same as University
faculty, staff, and student pages. See http://www.colorado.edu/userpages/
(suggested by Kay Stanley). [Included at the end of this message.]

Libby Evans noted that it would be a good idea to test a draft of the new
home page to see if the audiences we target can find the info they are
looking for. Libby agreed to head up a task force to do design the testing.

Indexing will be very important in helping people find the information
they need.

We digressed to the Departments and organizations page. Some of the
problems (Business School listed under K for Kenan; Health Services
research under S for Sheps...) are corrected by a revision Hallman was
working on. The group had some additional suggestions for the revised page
and agreed to replace the existing page with the revised page. This has
been done.

Hallman pointed out the public service value of "ask-an-expert" services,
like Tom Hocking, Education Coordinator, Morehead Planetarium, has
started using a moderated, state-wide newsgroup, nc.ask-an-astronomer.
Hallman would like to see many more similar services provided by Duke,
NCSU, NC Central, and local corporations, as well as UNC-Chapel Hill.
RTPnet provides a public focal point for such services at
http://RTPnet.org/ask.html.

The assignment for the next meeting is to outline the new home page.
Send drafts to judy_hallman at unc.edu.


UNC-CH World Wide Web audiences and what they're looking for

February 14, 1996, Judy Hallman (judy_hallman at unc.edu)

Thanks to Libby Evans, Lynne Neill, and Penny Ward for their lists

ADP-SI prototype at http://www.adp.unc.edu/sis/unchome.html

Mission

*Revising

The mission of the UNC-CH World Wide Web service is to provide a
comprehensive source of information about the University for
future employees and students, and to be a point of contact
between the University and its multiple internal and external
audiences and constituencies. It is the entry point through which
individuals around the world "visit" the campus.

Visitors

Prospective students

High school students looking for a college

College students seeking to transfer

College students looking at graduate and professional programs

Prospective Summer School students

*Continuing eduation students



Looking at:

Tuition and fees

Degrees offered

*Faculty and faculty credentials

*General College education requirements program

Ranking of departments, stats, security

Scholarships, esp. sports

Housing and potential roommates

High school and community college guidance counselors helping
select colleges

Parents of potential students

Applicants (student)

Admissions application form

Financial aid form

Inquire about the status of an application

Inquire about the status of a financial aid application

Prospective faculty and staff

Looking at job openings, benefits, local community information,

local statistics (housing costs)

Alumni for

Finding out where to donate money

Finding out about other alumni

Finding out about their former dept/professors

Sports info

DTH

*Another diploma

*Transcript

Parents, family, and friends of UNC-CH students, faculty, and staff

Media/reporters -- looking for news releases, position statement, recent speeches; people contacts for current stories; campus reports, publications and statistics

General public that uses University Hospitals

People coming to town, looking for maps, looking for places to go and things to see and do, tours; checking the weather, transportation, hotels, churches

People on campus at public terminals looking for maps, looking for places to go and things to see and do, tours; checking the weather, transportation, hotels, churches

Teachers bringing classes to campus -- preparing their agendas and plans

Students looking for summer camps (sports, music) and summer
programs -- like Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)
Program (http://www.med.unc.edu/pmbb/sure.htm)

Corporations -- current donors/partnerships; potential donors/partnerships

Adults looking for continuing education opportunities

People looking for books and other resources in the campus libraries

(NC) citizens in general; surfing the net; looking for fun stuff (eg. Ackland, Morehead, Botanical Garden, etc); citizens checking on their tax dollars

Looking for info about the University -- where is it, what does it look like, who's in charge (and what are there credentials/interests), mission, school songs, photos, logos, maps of campus and town, current goals and projects, potential speakers, activities in a particular part of the state (for someone giving a presentation wanting local specifics)

*Looking for other UNC campuses

NC Legislators

Board of Trustees

*Foundations

*Nonprofits

*Corporations

*State agencies

*Federal government

*Partnerships

Business Community

Sports fans around the world

People looking to buy T-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.

People looking for phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses, URL's, and other contact info for individuals, departments, projects, research

People looking for publications done by UNC-CH people, including theses and dissertations

Researchers/businesses looking for people on our campus involved in a specific area of research

People needing medical help ("UNC-CH has a school of medicine; maybe somebody there knows about my disease/symptoms/etc")

"Ask-an-expert" services -- see Columbia's health service, Go Ask Alice, at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/healthwise/alice.html, and Tom Hocking's newsgroup nc.ask-an-astronomer -- http://www.RTPnet.org/ask.html

Online-subject oriented discussion groups (newgroups)

Other universities for comparison purposes

*Looking for information about the Internet and World Wide Web; for example, how to find people on the Internet; see the section provided by Electronic Services, Davis Library, at http://sunsite.unc.edu/reference/internet/

Accreditation organizations (???)

UNC-CH Campus

Undergrads

Graduate and professional student

Faculty

Staff

Administrators

Announcements/alerts and special events -- anything important I need to know about?

Looking for phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses, URL's, and other contact info for individuals, departments, projects, research

Looking for jobs

Looking for places to go and things to see and do; checking the weather

What's going on in the outside world

Campus news

Academic information

Looking for personal info -- student grades, student bill, and possibly wanting to update -- URL of home page, e-mail address.

Looking for grant and funding opportunities

Looking for health and safety information

Student organizations

Employee forum info

Faculty Council info

User Groups -- Web-Walkers, SAS, ...

Campus resources

Policies and procedures

Online consultation -- ask an expert, psychological counseling (see Uncle Ezra at Cornell, http://www.cornell.edu/Dialogs/EZRA.html)

Night-life/activities/events in the local area

Buy/sell/trade

Ride boards


Things we want to promote

Public Service Round Table

Strengths in instruction

Research

Conferences on campus, or sponsored by people on our campus

International newsletters originating on our campus -- International Dimensions (International Medicine) (http://www.unc.edu/pubs/newslet/id/)

Librarian's Datebook (http://www.hsl.unc.edu/libcal96.html)

Ackland, Botanical Gardens, Morehead Planetarium (http://www.RTPnet.org/~dataman), PlayMakers and Outdoor Drama (http://www.unc.edu/depts/outdoor/index.htm)

Home Pages for classes???


http://www.colorado.edu/userpages/

Home Pages

These listings represent all users with home pages on Computing and

Network Services' WWW servers (spot, stripe, ucsu, ucsub, rintintin).

Faculty, staff and student home pages are included. Other users' home

pages may be found under Colleges and Schools, Department Listings,

Other Academic Programs, and Research Institutes and Centers.



Disclaimer: Because the University of Colorado at Boulder recognizes

the value of personal publishing on the Internet, students, staff, and

faculty are encouraged to produce personal WWW pages. However, the

University cannot accept responsibility for the contents of those

pages.



The personal home pages of University of Colorado at Boulder students,

staff, and faculty do not in any way constitute official University

content, but we hope you find the information in them useful, or at

least entertaining. The views and opinions expressed in the individual

home pages are strictly those of the page authors. Comments on the

contents of those pages should be directed to the page authors.



[1]Full Index of CNS User HomePages

[2]Spot.Colorado.EDU User HomePages

[3]Stripe.Colorado.EDU User HomePages

[4]Ucsu.Colorado.EDU User HomePages

[5]Ucsub.Colorado.EDU User HomePages

[6]Rintintin.Colorado.EDU User HomePages





Documentation for [7]constructing your own home page on a CNS system.



Here is a [8]listing of tools to help with HTML authoring.


Attendees:



Deb Aikat, JOMC, daikat at email.unc.edu

Andy Arnold, History, andyaba at email.unc.edu

Peggy Berryhill, Graduate School, grpob.ors at mhs.unc.edu

Stuart Bethune, Office of Scholarships and Student Aid, stuart_bethune at unc.edu

Tom Bowers, JOMC, tom_bowers at unc.edu

Kathy Edwards, OIT, kathy_edwards at unc.edu

Elizabeth A. Evans, CPC, evans at unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Erika Grams, WUNC/History, erika at email.unc.edu

Marybeth Grinnan, Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Trey Harris, OIT, trey at unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

Rick Kinney, ADP, rek.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Tong Liu, CPC, tongliu at xerxes.cpc.unc.edu

Michael McFarland, University Relations, not connected yet!

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Roger Nelsen, Alumni Association, roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Jackie Nelson, UADM, jnelson at email.unc.edu

Regina Oliver, GAA, regina_oliver at unc.edu

Greg O'Rear ADP, jgo.systems at mhs.unc.edu

Gary Pattillo, Davis Library, pattillo at email.unc.edu

Jim Sadler, Health Affairs, jim_sadler at unc.edu

Kathy Thomas, OIT, kathy_thomas at unc.edu

Amber Vogel, ORD, ottotwo at email.unc.edu


Judy Hallman (judy_hallman at unc.edu, http://www.unc.edu/~hallman)

Office of Information Technology


1996-02-21: Draft home page

Summary of February 21 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of February 21 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:53:37 -0500

From: Judy Hallman (hallman at gibbs.oit.unc.edu)

To: web-walkers at unc.edu

Subject: Summary of Feb. 21 meeting on planning a new home page

To Web-Walkers:

NOTE: There will NOT be a meeting February 28

Next meeting: Wednesday, March 6, 1996, 3:00 pm, 209 Manning: Planning a
new home page for UNC-CH

Topic: Continue development of the new Home Page


Summary of February 21 meeting on planning a new home page for UNC-CH.
This summary will be posted at
http://www.unc.edu/about/walkers/1996feb21.html

We looked at a prototype ADP-SI started at
http://www.adp.unc.edu/sis/unchome.html
, a draft I prepared, and the home
pages for a few campuses, particularly Duke (http://www.duke.edu/) and
Chicago (http://www.uchicago.edu). The group particularly liked the
Chicago page. I will use that as a guide, along with other suggestions, to
draft a new home page (text only). We can review and improve it
electronically before the March 6 meeting.


Attendees:

Will Allen, Undergrad - Comp. Sci., ugallen at email.unc.edu

Margaret Balcom, Gazette, mpbalcom at email.unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Erika Grams, WUNC/History, erika at email.unc.edu

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

Tong Liu, CPC, tongliu at xerxes.cpc.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Roger Nelsen, Alumni Association, roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Jim Sadler, Health Affairs, jim_sadler at unc.edu


Judy Hallman (judy_hallman at unc.edu, http://www.unc.edu/~hallman)

Office of Information Technology


1996-03-06: Establish items for new home page

Summary of March 6 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of March 6 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:07:39 -0500

From: Judy Hallman <hallman at gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

To: web-walkers at unc.edu

Subject: Summary of March 6 meeting on planning a new home page

To Web-Walkers:

Next meeting: Wednesday, April 3, 1996, 3:00 pm, 209 Manning:
Planning a new home page for UNC-CH

Topic: Reports from the subcommittees


Summary of March 6 meeting on planning a new home page for UNC-CH.

This summary will be posted at
http://www.unc.edu/about/walkers/1996mar06.html

After much discussion, we arrived at the following choices for
the UNC-CH Home Page.

  • News of the day
  • Academics and research
  • Admissions
  • Alumni
  • Campus information
  • Libraries
  • Student information

A bar at the bottom will provide

Directories        Search        Comments        Help 

The disclaimer will appear only on the Home Page (not in the bar) and was
moved to the bottom of the page.

The text of the new home page is at http://www.unc.edu/newhome/.

We set up the following groups:

Design: home page, home page graphics, "top of page" graphics, bars,
buttons, "return to home page" button

Kathy Thomas, OIT, kdt at email.unc.edu -- leader

Margaret Balcom, Univ. Rel., mpbalcom at email.unc.edu

Frank DiMauro, Med. Ctr. Pub. Affairs, fadim at med.unc.edu

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu

Vicki Lonell, ADP, val.admin at mhs.unc.edu

News of the day

Mike McFarland, News Services, mcnews at email.unc.edu

Academics and research

Howard Fried, Biochemistry, refried at email.unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

(co-leaders)

Admissions

Paula Carson, SIS Office, plc.our at mhs.unc.edu -- leader

Peggy Berryhill, Graduate School, grpob.ors at mhs.unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Rick Kinney, ADP, rek.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Alumni

Roger Nelsen, Alumni Assoc., roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Campus information

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu -- leader

Margaret Balcom, Univ. Rel., mpbalcom at email.unc.edu

Frank DiMauro, Med. Ctr. Pub. Affairs, fadim at med.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Libraries

Gary Pattillo, Academic Affairs Library, pattillo.davis at mhs.unc.edu

Tim Pyatt, Wilson Library, tpyatt at email.unc.edu

Student information

Paula Carson, SIS Office, plc.our at mhs.unc.edu -- leader

Peggy Berryhill, Graduate School, grpob.ors at mhs.unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Rick Kinney, ADP, rek.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu


The groups will pick times and places for meetings that are convenient
for current members of the group, but will announce meetings to
web-walkers at unc.edu so that others who are interested my participate.

The next Web-Walkers meeting will be April 3, to allow the groups time to
do their work.


Attendees:

Margaret Balcom, Univ. Rel., mpbalcom at email.unc.edu

Peggy Berryhill, Graduate School, grpob.ors at mhs.unc.edu

Paula Carson, SIS Office, plc.our at mhs.unc.edu

Frank DiMauro, Med. Ctr. Pub. Affairs, fadim at med.unc.edu

Kathy Edwards, OIT, kathy_edwards at unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Howard Fried, Biochemistry, refried at email.unc.edu

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

Rick Kinney, ADP, rek.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Vicki Lonell, ADP, val.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Roger Nelsen, Alumni Assoc., roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Gary Pattillo, Academic Affairs Library, pattillo.davis at mhs.unc.edu

Tim Pyatt, Wilson Library, tpyatt at email.unc.edu

Kathy Thomas, OIT, kdt at email.unc.edu


Judy Hallman (judy_hallman at unc.edu, http://www.unc.edu/~hallman)

Office of Information Technology


1996-04-03: Reports from the committees

Summary of April 3 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of April 3Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:07:10 -0400

From: Judy Hallman <hallman at gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

To: web-walkers at unc.edu

Subject: Summary of April 3 meeting on planning a new home page

To Web-Walkers:

Next meeting: Not scheduled yet. See below.


Summary of April 3 meeting on planning a new home page for UNC-CH.

This summary will be posted at
http://www.unc.edu/about/walkers/1996apr03.html

Report from Design committee

(home page, home page graphics, "top of page" graphics, bars, buttons,
"return to home page" button):

The design committee decided to make the first letter of each topic a
large graphic; then they thought it would be nice if the letters spelled
out something, vertically. With a little rearrangement and addition of the
Office of the Chancellor, they came out with:

Campus Sites and Services

Admissions

Research and Academics

Office of the Chancellor

Libraries

Information for Students

News of the Day

Alumni

The home page they proposed is at
http://www.unc.edu/~kdt/newhome/unc7.html. Another home page design (with
Tar Heels) was shown, but the group preferred the first. A variation with
the graphic on the left and text on the right was shown, but the group
preferred text on the left, graphic on the right.

The group unananimously approved the home page design, but there were
several suggestions for improvements:

-- Make the first letter of the text monospaced (for example, so that the
I of Information for Students is the same width as the N of News of the Day)

-- Highlight the lettering of the UNC so it stands out a little better
from the old well

-- Soften the dogwood; try it in pink

-- Change the color of the old well to white instead of blue

-- Check to see what it will look like with a grey background, on Windows
as well as Mac, on a laptop and other small screens -- try as many browsers
as possible

-- Check the code for Carolina Blue

For a second level page, click on Campus Sites & Services or go to
http://www.unc.edu/~kdt/newhome/second7.html.

The top and bottom graphics and the botton bar will be consistent on all
high level pages.

The button bar needs to be lightened and the text needs to be a little
clearer, but the group liked what they saw.

It was suggested that the button bar go on both the top and bottom of the
page, but the group preferred that it only be on the bottom.

It was noted that Directories (on the button bar) will bring up a page of
campus directories, something like http://www.unc.edu/newhome/dir.html.

The "return to the UNC-CH home page" graphic has not been done yet, but
Kathy Thomas suggests it will probably be a shrunk-down version of
something from the the home page graphic.

Campus Site and Services

The group prefers this title instead of "Campus information;" everything
in the UNC-CH Web is campus information. Topics on this page currently are:

About the UNC-CH campus web

About the University

Administration

Athletics

Campus groups and clubs

Chapel Hill and surrounding communities

Frequently asked questions and their answers

Human Resources

Information Technology (OIT)

International Center

Police, health, and safety

Public Service

This section has been roughed out at
http://www.unc.edu/newhome/campus/campus.html.

It was suggested that we change the OIT entry to the proposed new unit,
consisting of OIT, ADP, and Telecommunications. Does anyone know what it
will be called?

Under "About the University," make "Visiting campus" a bullet.

Take "and their answers" off the "Frequently asked questions" item.

Should we put "FAQ" on the button bar? Decided not to; at least not now.
Maybe later if it seems needed.

News of the Day

Draft is at http://www.unc.edu/newhome/news/news.html.

Generally OKed.

Question: How will the "Web site of the week" be selected?

Don't know yet.

Admissions

Draft is at http://www.adp.unc.edu/sis/unchome/admis.html.

General direction OKed.

Student information

Draft is at http://www.adp.unc.edu/sis/unchome/stud.html.

General direction OKed.

Academics and Research

Draft is at http://net.chem.unc.edu/academ1.html.

We agreed to keep academics in front of research on this page, even
though the home page is Research and Academics. It's not confusing.

Bob Kessler is using a new feature on this page that allows the viewer to
expand a selection in place. Try it. Click on the blue triangle next to
an item, like "Schools and Colleges" or "Course catalogs."

The group liked this feature. We need to check out how it looks with
other browsers, especially netscape. The design group was asked to make a
recommendation.

Alumni

Roger Nelsen asked that we change the home page item from "Alumni" to
"Alumni and Friends."

Libraries

The Libraries will pick up some of the standard graphics for their page.

Office of the Chancellor

Hallman will check on the status of a home page for the Chancellor.

Next meeting

We need to complete the graphics -- at least know where to get the links --
so that the second level pages can be completed. The subcommittees will
continue to refine their pages. The next meeting will be scheduled as
soon as the second level pages are finished.

Meanwhile, please send comments and suggestions to the groups (listed
below). The next meeting should finalize our proposal, so please make
your concerns and suggestions known before then.

Committees

Design: home page, home page graphics, "top of page" graphics, bars,
buttons, "return to home page" button

Kathy Thomas, OIT, kdt at email.unc.edu -- leader

Margaret Balcom, Univ. Rel., mpbalcom at email.unc.edu

Frank DiMauro, Med. Ctr. Pub. Affairs, fadim at med.unc.edu

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu

Vicki Lonell, ADP, val.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Campus Sites and Services

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu -- leader

Margaret Balcom, Univ. Rel., mpbalcom at email.unc.edu

Frank DiMauro, Med. Ctr. Pub. Affairs, fadim at med.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Admissions

Paula Carson, SIS Office, plc.our at mhs.unc.edu -- leader

Peggy Berryhill, Graduate School, grpob.ors at mhs.unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Rick Kinney, ADP, rek.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Research and Academics

Howard Fried, Biochemistry, refried at email.unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

(co-leaders)

Office of the Chancellor

Hallman will check on this

Libraries

Gary Pattillo, Academic Affairs Library, pattillo.davis at mhs.unc.edu

Tim Pyatt, Wilson Library, tpyatt at email.unc.edu

Information for Students

Paula Carson, SIS Office, plc.our at mhs.unc.edu -- leader

Peggy Berryhill, Graduate School, grpob.ors at mhs.unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Rick Kinney, ADP, rek.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

News of the day

Mike McFarland, News Services, mcnews at email.unc.edu

Alumni and Friends

Roger Nelsen, Alumni Assoc., roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Attendees:

Paula Carson, SIS Office, plc.our at mhs.unc.edu

Steven Case, Law, scase at email.unc.edu

Frank DiMauro, Med. Ctr., fadim at med.unc.edu

Scott Freeman, ADP, rsf.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Judy Hallman, OIT, judy_hallman at unc.edu

Glenn Haugh, UNC Printing, gdh.uncprint at mhs.unc.edu

Howard Fried, Biochemistry, refried at email.unc.edu

Marybeth Grinnan, UNC Printing, pdmhg at bullhead.adp.unc.edu

Bob Kessler, Chemistry, bob_kessler at unc.edu

Rick Kinney, ADP, rek.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Lynne Neill, ADP, lcn.admin at mhs.unc.edu

Roger Nelsen, Alumni, roger_nelsen at unc.edu

Regina Oliver, Alumni Assn, regina_oliver at unc.edu

Gary Pattillo, Libraries, pattillo.davis at mhs.unc.edu

Sandra Shirley, S & P, sandra_shirley at unc.edu

Jenny Williams, OIT, jenny_williams at unc.edu

Pawel Wodnicki, Cell Biology & Anatomy, pawelw at med.unc.edu>


Judy Hallman (judy_hallman at unc.edu, http://www.unc.edu/~hallman)
Campus-Wide Information Systems Manager, UNC-Chapel Hill

1996-06-19: New home page, search, and statistics

Summary of Jun 19 Web-Walkers meeting (UNC-CH)

Summary of Jun 19 Web-Walkers meeting

Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:32:45 -0400
From: Judy Hallman <hallman@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
To: web-walkers@unc.edu
Cc: richard.boyd@virtus.com, david.lutz@virtus.com
Subject: Summary of June 19 Web-Walker meeting 

To Web-Walkers list:

Next meetings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Topics of interest include Intranets, Java, Virtual Reality

The next meeting will be July 17, 3:00, 209 Manning. Thanks to David Lutz,
Richard Boyd of Virtus Corporation will show us their product. Deb Aikat
and his Journalism students will use Virtus to develop VRML pages for the
campus. One objective of this meeting (besides the demo) will be to
propose particular projects for the students. 

No meeting in August. Later meetings will be scheduled after classes 
start and we can schedule a room.

New Home Page
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Home page and templates 
OK.

Campus Sites and Services 
OK. We looked briefly at some of the policies.
Please check policies and procedures and let me know if you see any
problems.  These have not been edited yet and that needs to be done before
they go to Anne Parker, Bill Graves, and Susan Ehringhaus for approval, so
there is still a little time if you see anything that needs fixing. 

Admissions
Change "Student Information" to "Information for Students." Done.

Research and Academics
Suggestion to add Public Service here. Howard Fried and I both looked at 
it and Public Service doesn't fit well on these pages. It's under Campus 
Sites and Services. Will just leave it there for now.

Office of the Chancellor
Margaret Balcom said that she thinks there is a better picture of the 
Chancellor. I'll check with Victoria Gless (who is responsible for this 
section). Thanks to Michael Phillips of ATNS for putting up the current 
Chancellor pages for Victoria.

Libraries
The menu uses h3 headings instead of h4; this should be changed to make 
this page consistent with the others.

Information for Students
We had several variations. Lynne Neill and the Information for Students 
committee have put together the "final" version. We discussed the 
Policies and Procedures section. I had all the campus policies and 
procedures that I know have Web pages in one big alphabetized file. The 
request was to just put up student policies. Instead I tried grouping 
them into campus-wide, student-oriented, staff-oriented, and faculty 
oriented. We changed the entry to just Policies on the student page. 
Margaret Balcom suggested to me that we take out The Source -- it's 
listed elsewhere and isn't really policies (done) -- and she suggested that 
Susan Ehringhaus should approve the contents of this page. Seems like a 
good idea to me.

News of the Day
Take the word "The" out of The University Gazette and The Daily Tar Heel.
I have since taken out News releases (latest was April 14). Will put 
that item back when there is someone in News Services to start 
maintaining these again.

Directories
Minor formatting change in unc. newsgroups.

Search
~~~~~~
The search option currently only searches the www.unc.edu (Ra) server. 
Plans are to expand the function for all campus servers. Much work 
remains to be done. 

Thanks to Chris Colomb for the search option and his presentation.
I'll work with Chris and campus web server system administrators toward 
enlarging the scope of the search option to include more campus servers.

Statistics
~~~~~~~~~~
Usage statistics are now available for pages on www.unc.edu, thanks to 
Jason Purdy. Instructions are at www.unc.edu/about/provider/cgi/stats.html.
The statistics for www.unc.edu are at http://www.unc.edu/stats/stats.html

Again, more work remains to be done. I'll work with Jason, Jim Murrell (Ra
system administrator), and campus web server system adminstrators to see
if this function can't be extended to pages on other campus web servers. 

Attendees:

I forgot to pick up the sign up sheet.


Judy Hallman (judy_hallman@unc.edu, http://www.unc.edu/~hallman)

Campus-Wide Information Systems Manager, UNC-Chapel Hill

List of contents of the four Computation Center boxes

Materials in the Manuscripts Department, Wilson Library

Oversized, not in boxes:
Photo, computer light panel, I think of the 360/75
Poster: Info, Campus Computing at your fingertips, DEC VAX
January 30, 1990 Gazette article on Info.

Four boxes:

Box 1: Folders
Sadler Committee
Campus Web Advisory Committee
Gazette: July 1998, CCI to begin
History 1982-83
5 year plan 1991
Interactive computing
Internet
Judy Hallman's publications
Sunsite
TUCC
25th Anniversary, including guest list and some letters
1957: Whyburn letter, Center dedication
5-year plan prior to Call-OS
Brochures, including one for CBT
Photos moved to Box 2

Box 2: Folders
Photos, from Box 1
Web-Walkers
Ra
New Home Page
Info
Steering committee
Student Government
Terminals
Poster
Kill Info
Menus
History (Info)
History of the Center: Includes:
Brochures: The Computer at Chapel Hill 1960 (2), The Computation Center -- 1105,
Model 40, Model 50, and Model 75, 1973.
Progress Report: Support Center for Educational Computing, Bill Graves, 1984(?)
Brief History of DP at UNC-CH, Danziger, 1930s - 1976 (on back)
The Computer Laboratory Project for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
August 1, 1957, W. M. Whyburn
Catalog of programs,
News releases, especially on upgrades
Danziger paper
Computer Fair
Computer Science
History of computers
Newsletters: Sept & Oct. 1984 on the 25th
Organization charts, 1980s
Interim report of the Moorhead committee, 1991
Computation Center dedication program
Copy of covers: Frontier Research on Digital Computers, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Notes from summer conference, Aug. 17-28, 1959, John W. Carr III and May Dale Spearman
Reception Carolina Inn March 16, 1990
Some history notes 1984-1996
ITS Awards program, 1997

Box 3:
Newsletters: Vol 1 # 1 Sept 1968 Vol 6 # 9, May/June 1974
Vol VII # 1 Aug 1974, Vol VII #2, Oct. 1974
Newsletters: Vol VII # 3, December 1974 - Vol 17 #2, January 1985
Newsbriefs Jan 12, 1983 #54 - Dec. 1990 # 440
Introduction to Academic and Research Computing at UNC-CH, PG-6-82, revised July 1985
Yellow booklet, September 1968, Computation Center of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Users Guide, Computation Center, 1969
Computation Center Operating Policies, September 1969
New User Packet, Aug. 1973
New User Packet, Aug. 1974
New User Packet Sept. 1975
New User Packet, Aug. 1978
New User Packet, PG-06-82, Revised Aug. 1984
Communicating with System 360/370, PG-7-74, Fall 1974
Communicating with System 360/370, Fall 1975
Communicating with System 360/370, Spring 1979
Communicating with MVS, PG-08-74, Fall 1984
Communicating with MVS, PG-08-74, Fall 1986
Processing Batch Jobs, I-002, October 1987
Managing Data, I-003, April 1988
Using SAS, G-017, Dec. 1987
TUCC Catalog of Programs, GIR-067-1, Fall 1974
UNCTEXT User's Guide, May 25, 1973
UNC Academic Services Annual Report 1987-1988
OIT Review: Fall 1992 (2), Fall 1993 (4), Fall/Winter 1994 (2),
Spring/Summer 1994 (6), Spring/Summer 1995

Box 4:
Box with 50 slides, UNIVAC 1105, terminals, people.
Box with 16 more slides.
John Blanton's ASAP Primer, 1970, version 1.5
An Introduction to File Processing, Richard W. Conway, William L. Maxwell, February 1,
1972, Department of Computer Science and Department of Operations Research, Cornell
University
TUCC document ASAP: A File Maintenance and Information Retrieval System (Local
Implementation) LSR-136-2, February 26, 1974
ASAP 2.0 System Reference Manual, Compuvisor Inc., Ithaca, NY, September 1, 1991
Loose papers: What is ASAP (brochure, Information Associates, Fairport, NY),
ASAP complete example, Oct. 15, 1973 handout, sample printout (1 page),
description of VTOC (volume table of contents), hexlist printout, TUCC, 8/31/83 of
UNCCC.DISKINV.ASAPDICT.VERCUR
Notebook: Newsbriefs 1-52, 1982
Notebook: Newsbriefs Jan 7, 1991 #441 - Dec. 16, 1991 #489, Jan. 1992 Vol 1 #1 -
Aug 1997, Vol 6 #26
Notebook: Newsbriefs Nov. 3, 1997 - Nov. 9, 1998
ATNS Reports: Vol 1 #1, Sept/Oct 1995, Vol 1 #2 Nov/Dec 1995, Vol 1 #3 Jan/Feb 1996,
Vol 1 #4 Mar/Apr 1996, Vol 1 #5 Summer 1996
University of Waterloo Computer Center, SYSPUB User's Guide, Nov. 2, 1977
Notebook: Overview of OIT documentation April 1994 and the documents.
All are available in Info. Service oriented, Network oriented, Convex, DEC VAX,
IBM CMS, IBM MVS