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>How do other institutions handle web publisher accounts and deal with
>problems of this sort.
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I do one academic department, or "school" as we call it, within the
university. There are 4 divisions within that. I do one of the divisions.
The other three look after themselves and are linked as decribed below.
Each division has several research groups with their own web ideas. Again,
I deal with the research groups that belong to my division.
I have set up a filemaker database to hold the details that I publish. One
of the files is called "domain" and it contains a description of the
internal structure of the school in terms of divisions, research groups and
various other special interest groups like the safety committee or teaching
projects. For each of these entities I record the name of the group, who
its webster is, who the head of the group is, a one-line description (for
anchor text) and the URL of its home page. That info is enough for me to
publish a link. That's as far as I go for any of these groups - what they
do at their URL is then up to them.
Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway!) my "domain" file which records
the internal structure of the school is my view of the structure, not the
"official" one, since there is no agreement or even discussion of the
"official" one.
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Norman Paterson, University of St Andrews
http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~norman/
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