Recommended Actions, Resources, and Timeline:  

1.  We recommend that ITC recognize the importance of the roles in the web development framework 

as a campus standard, and provide the resources to achieve those goals. June 2002. 

2.  We recommend that the Web Services Committee (or the new Web Council) field test these roles 

on the  official site  checklist pilot this summer. Three staff, 8 hours each, by September 2002. 

Governance and Community: Web Council, Web Coordinators, Web 

Technical Unit 

Finding: Campus wide governance and training for web service planning and deployment can be 

characterized as ad hoc and under resourced. Overall, there is little resource put into developing a 

strategic framework for web development.  

Last year's Web Presence Committee found a substantial amount of resources expended on staffing 

for web efforts in individual organizational units. There are some under resourced efforts at campus 

wide web coordination. For example: 

The Public Information Office (PIO), which has responsibility for upper level pages, including 

the main campus home page, only has .3 FTE for web development. While the PIO has taken 

responsibility for publishing UCSC Web Policies and Guidelines 

http://www.ucsc.edu/resources/policy.html 

there is not sufficient resource available for PIO to 

coordinate or lead web services across the campus.  

Jacques Delsemmes at CATS has developed a list of web masters for Unit web sites at  

http://www2.ucsc.edu/cats/sc/groups/webadmin www.shtml

 This list of unit web directories 

was created so that unit web administrators could easily find their counterparts and help one 

another.  

Jacques also has developed an email list of all UCSC web administrators who have asked to be 

included on the list (

webadmins@cats.ucsc.edu

), but it used very sporadically. 

Aaron Melgares, Natural Sciences, as part of his role in the Computing Coordinators, 

developed a small catalog of web applications used on campus. However, not many on campus 

appear to know the list exists. (The Web Tools survey described later in this report is an 

attempt to revive that effort.) 

Recommended Actions, Resources, and Timeline: 

1.  We recommend that the ITC appoint the aforementioned ongoing Web Council in June 2002. We 

recommend that committee participants represent both functions and organizations. The 

organizations would include representatives from: 

Computing Coordinators  

Academic Divisions 

Academic Senate 

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