Hi...
>How do other institutions handle web publisher accounts and deal with
>problems of this sort.
We've hit the same barrier.
We're trapped between the [regulatory] need to tie content to an indivudal
on the one hand (and hence the use of personal accounts) and the need for
that content to be presented as part of College unit (department or
division). Personal accounts have access to specific parts of the
publically accessible tree.
People working together; ad hoc authoring; dealing with content once an
employee has left; etc. - all problems with no easy solution. I was
expecting a WEB-OS rather than a FILE-OS by now but wishful thinking
doesn't build a web-service.
This is, in my view, one of the fundamental problems we face here at
King's. It is a significant bottleneck - especially within the cooperative
inter- and intra-departmental community of a HE institution...
I'm starting to think that metadata is the only solution for managing files
and their inter-connections - a file based OS is bad news for institutional
web-management i.e., should people be working at file level at all?!
Alternative perspectives would be very useful here.
Stephen...
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