Hi Stephen
I'd agree with you that using file-based operating system mechanisms
causes problems in our environment.
In September's Institutional Web Management workshop there will be an
accompanying exhibition, which will include commercial vendors - who are
likely to come this year, as they only have to travel to south east London
and not to the far north :-)
Amongst the exhibitors will be Redleaf, who sell the Netobjects (and
ColdFusion) software suite - see http://www.redleaf.co.uk/store/system/
NetObjects Authoring Server Suite look interesting in the context of this
thread. It "provides a controlled, collaborative site development and
maintenance environment for creating effective corporate intranets. "
Brian
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From: Stephen Emmott <[log in to unmask]>
To: Gareth McAleese <[log in to unmask]>;
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Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Organising Web Publishers
> 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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