Presentation for Content Developers Library WebOps November 1 st amp November 5 th 2012 Guest speaker Jonathan Woodcock CPA Agenda Staff Training Model What Why How When Discussion ID: 489551
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Library Web Training & Standards
Presentation for Content Developers
Library WebOps
November 1
st
& November 5
th
, 2012
Guest speaker: Jonathan Woodcock, CPASlide2
Agenda
Staff Training ModelWhat, Why, How, WhenDiscussion
Library Public Website Development Standards
What, Why, How, When
Discussion
WebOps UpdateSlide3
Why Now? Slide4
Staff Training ModelSlide5
Why is it changing?
As with LibGuides, while CMS/Drupal frees us from some tasks we have to fit the model, no outliers without cause.In the glorious past
- 1999
Earth
Sci
,
History
,
Civ
Eng
- 2007
Civ
Eng
- Current
Civ
Eng
may find ourselves
squeezing
things
inSlide6
Why is it changing?
The standards will mean that we can focus on content. We’ll have to do more than pay lip-service to web accessibility. Remember hearing JAWS handle
this
?Slide7
WCMS: a user's perspective
What it does for you:
Simplifies publishing a website so you can focus on the content.
Provides a basis for workflow planning through roles and version control.
Meets minimum technical requirements for accessibility.
What it does not do for you:
Create your content.
Make your content useable.
Make your content accessible.Slide8
Benefits of trained staff
Subject matter experts can be your content generators.Task redundancy (CPA practices a 3-deep model).
Websites
are part of business communication just as much as phones and email.
The
web is never done.Slide9
New training requirements
Core competencies for Web Content MaintainersSEW Courses:
Writing for the Web
Effective Web Content Planning
Writing Web Accessible Content
WCMS for Content MaintainersSlide10
Effective web content planning
Project management for websites.Straightforward, reproducible process.Content
is far more work than you think.
The
web is never done.Slide11
Implementation
Courses currently offered Benefits to current workflowsRequirement
for new CMS
implementation Slide12
Discussion time
Additional trainingSupportSlide13
Library PuBlic Web StandardsSlide14
Web standards
Standardized best practices Philosophy of web designSlide15
Why web standards
“In general, standards exist to make things simpler and easier. Isn’t it convenient that most electrical devices in your
country use the same electricity supply, and
there
is a common language for business and daily interactions?”Slide16
How the Library standards came to be
Commonly-accepted best practices and web development guidelinesCampus guidelinesProvincial legislationUser feedbackSlide17
The standards
Four categories of standards:Interface Look & FeelFunctionality
Compliance
Help
ImplementationSlide18
Discussion timeSlide19
WebOps UpdateSlide20
Upcoming work
Session on Usability and User Needs Assessment Project Early Drupal experimentation
New working groups