ROLES IN WEB DEVELOPMENT

Functional          Responsibilities 

 Notes 

Examples of job 

Role 

titles with skills to 

effectively fill role 

Content Expert 

Understands, produces, gathers, 

There are various 

Administrative 

collates, and edits the 

levels and sub roles 

assistant, writer, 

information that is or will be 

here including writer, 

editor, graphic artist 

represented on the web.  

collator, editor, 

Responsible for timely updates 

illustrator, etc. 

to web content. 

Web Developer 

Creates the pages and/or 

There are various 

Web programmer, 

systems that the information 

levels here including 

graphic designer, 

resides in.  Designs the page 

WYSIWYG web 

digital publisher, 

layout of the site.  Creates the 

designer, HTML coder, 

database specialist 

templates that the content will 

graphic designer, 

go into.  No specific knowledge 

database integrator, 

of the content is necessary. 

etc.  

Information 

Understands the relationships 

Must coordinate with 

Librarian, information 

Architect 

among various parts of the 

content experts to help  architect 

content. Designs the site's 

understand the content 

information hierarchy and 

and with the web 

keyword metadata schema.  

developer so the user 

Insures that the site's 

interface corresponds 

information hierarchy is 

with the information 

consistent with the campus wide 

hierarchy. 

information hierarchy. 

System 

Builds and maintains the 

 System 

administrator, 

Administrator 

server(s) that the web pages are 

System engineer 

hosted and developed on.  

Responsible for the server 

software, server security, and 

data backups.  No knowledge of 

the web content, HTML, etc. 

required. 

Principal officer  Ensures that unit's web site is 

Director, Dean, AVC 

of the unit 

consistent with campus goals 

and message (or at least doesn't 

contradict them).Ensure that 

adequate resources exist for web 

effort and that supervisors of 

those in various framework roles 

have time and resources for web 

development. Responsible for 

verifying that the web site meets 

UCSC official standards. 

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Web Services Committee 

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May 28, 2002