DCMI Infrastructure Advisory Committee
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DCMI-IAC Call

2016-01-29
Attendees: Stuart, Kai, Tom, Andrew, Jon, Paul
Regrets: Adrian

  • How to best represent wealth of legacy/archival content and highlight current projects?
    • DCMI Link Inventory - Google Doc
    • There may be pages that can be eliminated from active maintenance
    • possibly preserve in another form or link to them in new site
    • avoid link breakage
    • establish use cases for goals of DCMI web architecture
      • information about current state of DCMI community
      • archival pages give a false impression
      • must highlight active projects
      • should provide mechanism for blogging about current events
      • Conference materials are in OCS/OJS
      • except for conference websites: on DCMI server
  • UKOLN website was turned into a static archive and maintained by the University of Bath - it’s still there at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk
    • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/SWAP/Scholarly_Works_Application_Profile/index.html - 404
    • http://dublincore.org/archives/ukoln/www.ukoln.ac.uk/SWAP/Scholarly_Works_Application_Profile/index.html
  • Should DCMI maintain all web systems, or is there room for external services?
    • static site generators require separate comment system: Disqus, Discourse
    • Wordpress has built in comments
    • trend moving away from comments toward discussions in social media
    • learning curve for website maintenance should be shorter for new system
  • Overview of new Wordpress site: http://dublincore.net/
    • Metadata Basics: gateway for beginners
    • Explore: Linked Data for Professional Educators - LD4PE
    • Specifications: list of specs
    • DCMI Groups: active groups
    • Events: calendar of upcoming events
    • FAQ
  • Build out Wordpress site with some examples of technical information
    • use as comparison for static site generation development effort
    • there are utilities for exporting Wordpress to static site generators
      • Wordpress to Middleman
      • Wordpress to Jekyll

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