Present: Dr. Raymond Palmer, Dr. Joseph Lucke, Alan Miller, Tom Raymond, Dr. Frank Stafford, Heather Cura, Dr. Keith Krolick, Dr. Robert Badgett, Brian Neuenschwander, Mary Yanes and Jim Barrett.

• Server traffic in March rose 8 percent, to 1,290,739 page views.
• The campus calendar software will be moved to a production server by next week. Current testers are: Department of Medicine and the University Relations Office. Dr. Keith Krolick suggested adding Grants Management deadlines as a category of calendar listings.
• The CampusCam was added to the web portal (from portal menu, click "Links," then "CampusCam").
• Health Information Network is a new joint web project between the library and a nonprofit group that will build a site for consumer health information in Bexar County.
• An upcoming accessibility training conference is scheduled for May 26-26 in Austin. A handout was distributed.

In new business, Dr. Joseph Lucke asked where or how he and other faculty members could obtain a faculty web site where he could update his publications, personal information, etc. At present time, it seems departments or schools are hosting their own faculty web sites. Dr. Krolick suggested eCV might have this type of feature built in.

In old business, the committee reviewed the free Google search engine and the results it brings up for the uthscsa.edu domain. At its previous meeting, the committee asked Mr. Barrett to see whether two web sites, aises.uthscsa.edu and nativenet.uthscsa.edu, could be removed from the search since they deal with non-university topics and come up frequently before citations for other uthscsa.edu sites. Mr. Barrett said he had spoken with the owner, Dr. Borries Demeler. He said Dr. Demeler had declined to move the sites outside the domain or block Google from searching them, thus removing them from the index.

Members discussed the value of the content versus the disadvantage of having its citations push down other search results. The sites have been hosted in the uthscsa.edu domain from many years, Mr. Barrett said, and before rules were established about official sponsorship of uthscsa.edu web sites.

Mr. Barrett ran searches on several keywords, and also showed a code modification designed to exclude the two sites in domain searches.

The committee had a split opinion about the value of the sites’ content; some thought it might be useful, while others thought it was out-of-date and outside the university mission. The committee, however, agreed, that the sites should be outside the uthscsa.edu domain. The committee recommended making an exception to policy in that the university would pay for the fee to establish a new domain for each site because the sites had been established before existing rules about site sponsorship. Mr. Barrett said the sites probably could be hosted on the same server as long as they had new domains and a member of the Executive Committee signed the established "non-uthscsa.edu" hosting agreement.

There was no other business and the meeting was adjourned.

-- Minutes prepared by Mary Yanes
-- Approved June 29,2004