Comments on: POWRing up the POWR project http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/ ulcc digital archives blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: JISC-PoWR » Blog Archive » Set a blog to catch a blog… http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/comment-page-1/#comment-1216 JISC-PoWR » Blog Archive » Set a blog to catch a blog… Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:43:30 +0000 http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/#comment-1216 [...] also runs on Wordpress, therefore I knew that, thanks to Wordpress’s REST-like interface and Cool URIs, it is easy not only to select an individual author’s posts (/author/kevinashley) but also [...] [...] also runs on WordPress, therefore I knew that, thanks to WordPress’s REST-like interface and Cool URIs, it is easy not only to select an individual author’s posts (/author/kevinashley) but also [...]

]]> By: JISC-PoWR » Blog Archive » Don’t Web Managers Care About Preservation? http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/comment-page-1/#comment-435 JISC-PoWR » Blog Archive » Don’t Web Managers Care About Preservation? Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:59:34 +0000 http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/#comment-435 [...] response to a post on ULCC’s DA Blog Chris Rushbridge, director of the DCC (and contributor to the Digital Curation Blog) commented: The [...] [...] response to a post on ULCC’s DA Blog Chris Rushbridge, director of the DCC (and contributor to the Digital Curation Blog) commented: The [...]

]]> By: Richard M. Davis http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Richard M. Davis Thu, 29 May 2008 18:41:14 +0000 http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/#comment-430 Isn't this usually the time-in-post of the last web or marketing manager? I think it's a shame that so much obviously important, official information - publication-like stuff - tends not to be trusted to the Web proper: a website itself is treated as an ever-changing shop window, an ephemeral frame of improbably complex HTML and Javascript, flung together by Content Management Systems, while "important" things get added as ready-to-print PDFs. This attachment to the good old A4 page suggests to me that hypertext is still outside most organisations' (and individuals') comfort zone. Isn’t this usually the time-in-post of the last web or marketing manager?

I think it’s a shame that so much obviously important, official information – publication-like stuff – tends not to be trusted to the Web proper: a website itself is treated as an ever-changing shop window, an ephemeral frame of improbably complex HTML and Javascript, flung together by Content Management Systems, while “important” things get added as ready-to-print PDFs. This attachment to the good old A4 page suggests to me that hypertext is still outside most organisations’ (and individuals’) comfort zone.

]]> By: Chris Rusbridge http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Chris Rusbridge Mon, 26 May 2008 19:53:45 +0000 http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2008/05/23/powring-up-the-powr-project/#comment-421 The enthusiastic way in which web-site owners "re-brand" or "re-launch" their web-sites suggests that they are not particularly interested, long-term, in the details of the experience; continuous improvement means continuous discarding. One hopes that they are more interested in the information content, in some more abstract sense. Maybe we could measure this by tracking older pages across re-launches? Perhaps a measure of commitment to the "look and feel" might be the lifetime since last reorganised? The enthusiastic way in which web-site owners “re-brand” or “re-launch” their web-sites suggests that they are not particularly interested, long-term, in the details of the experience; continuous improvement means continuous discarding. One hopes that they are more interested in the information content, in some more abstract sense. Maybe we could measure this by tracking older pages across re-launches?

Perhaps a measure of commitment to the “look and feel” might be the lifetime since last reorganised?

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