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Internet Services Committee Annual Report June 14, 2006 Getting Started – Set ground rules for meetings – Established goals and objectives – Identified tasks to meet objectives – Chose a decision-making process – Began completing tasks to meet objectives Our Goals Goal 1: Make WelchWeb standards-compliant. Goal 2: Increase productivity for those involved in writing, creating, and editing online content. Goal 3: Measure and improve the usability of WelchWeb. Goal 1 Make WelchWeb standards-compliant. Objective: Use structural markup and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to separate the actual content of pages from the way they are presented. Goal 2 Increase productivity for those involved in writing, creating, and editing online content. Objective: Implement a distributed web authoring tool. Goal 3 Measure and improve the usability of WelchWeb. Objective: Specify user requirements. Objective: Set usability metrics. Objective: Establish and follow researchbased usability guidelines. WelchWeb User Requirements Analysis http://intranet.welch.jhmi.edu/intranet/committees/iscomm/analysis/index.cfm Accomplishments to Date January 2006 • Added mission statement to WelchWeb • Added accessibility statement to WelchWeb • Implemented standards compliant version of WelchWeb (reached Goal 1) February 2006 • Created usage tracking mechanism for analyzing usage of navigational links March 2006 • Implemented a distributed web authoring system to better manage WelchWeb content (reached Goal 2) Current Projects 1. Identify all WelchWeb content contributors. 2. Create a single point of entry for users to retrieve information by subject. 3. Make the website’s navigation more userfriendly. 4. Produce a cohesive online presence for the library’s website and other internetbased services. Project 1 Identify content owners for all WelchWeb pages. Solution: Keep a master list of content contributors on the Intranet. Project 2 Create a single point of entry for users to retrieve information by subject. Solution: Consolidate subject guides created by liaison librarians with subject guides created by digital library services to create a single point of entry for patrons seeking information on a particular subject. See prototype. Project 3 Make the navigation more user-friendly. Solution: Move navigation to the top of the page. See prototype. Project 4 Set guidelines for the library’s websites to create a consistent, unified presence that revolves around our users. “The advantages of consistent graphic design and user interface standards are immediately obvious in a user-centered approach to Web design and clearly transcend the parochial interests of participating departments, groups, and individuals.” ~ Web Style Guide, 2nd edition To date, the library has produced websites in a somewhat piece meal fashion, resulting in a hodgepodge of different designs and user interfaces. Solution: Create a Web style guide that sets forth consistent graphic design and user interface standards. Establish procedural guidelines for future web development. Decision-Making Process We propose the following: 1. Committee puts forth proposal along with the decision criteria upon which it is based. (Proposal may have originated with staff or groups outside of the committee.) 2. Committee solicits broad input from department(s) affected by the proposal. If everyone in the library is affected, such as in Project 4, than the committee will consult the department heads group. 3. Committee considers input in relation to decision criteria. 4. Committee makes a decision, explicitly sharing the reasons for making its decision. Questions?