Present: Dr. Raymond Palmer, Alan Miller, Brian Neuenschwander, Dr. Keith Krolick, Dr. Robert Badgett, Thomas Anthony, Dr. Alison Beck, Dr. Joseph Lucke, Tom Raymond, Jim Barrett and Mary Yanes.
Dr. Raymond Palmer, the chair, opened the meeting, and received approval of the June 30 minutes. Jim Barrett gave the webmaster's report. He said:- Server traffic in July rose 11 percent, to 1,440,793 page views over the same month in 2003.
- The campus calendar was rolled out in July and had six calendars, 49 postings, and 33 individuals posting events. Calendar events will be displayed on a high-definition display located in the Student Affairs building when it opens.
- The clinical studies database contains 75 studies (out of about 1,400 human studies under way); public rollout is set for mid-September.
- He attended the UT-Austin Open House earlier this month. He said webmasters from UT components gathered and examined content-management systems and web traffic analysis software.
- He also attended an AIR (Accessibility Internet Rally) classes at UTSA, which taught principles of web accessibility.
Discussion turned to online maps of the campus. Dr. Keith Krolick asked whether there were thoughts of giving access to the new web-based mapping system at terminals at different points on campus. Mr. Barrett said PCs with browsers are planned at the visitors center in the new Student Affairs building. He said he knew of no plans to provide PCs elsewhere. Dr. Krolick asked what ways might be devised so visitors could look up an employee's name to find a map of his or her room location. Mr. Barrett said the new map system on the web gave many rooms and offices, but not locations for each employee. He said the maps would have to show locations of about 5,000 people. Mr. Barrett said he would check to see if there is any way to work toward a system that could match employee names with their offices or work locations.
In old business, the committee examined results from the Google search appliance after it had indexed the uthscsa.edu domain. Mr. Barrett said the UT System office in Austin had agreed to index the domain on its machine, which has unused capacity. In spring, the UT System license will come up for renewal and the Health Science Center plans to contribute part of the licensing cost. The search appliance allows the webmaster to specify which sites to search so searches can be tailored for use domain-wide and for individual web sites that want to offer "site searches," he said.
There was no other business and the meeting was adjourned.
-- Minutes prepared by Mary Yanes
-- Approved Oct. 27, 2004