Purpose:

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Purpose

• Determine whether Carnegie Mellon should provide
  a content management system (CMS).If so,
  recommend a solution.
• Co-chairs Anne Connell, School of Design
• Denise Troll Covey, University Libraries

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Content Management System (CMS)

• What is a CMS?
• Software to simplify web publishing
• What did we do?
• Identified campus requirements
• Investigated available CMS solutions
• Compared requirements with solutions
  
• Recommended

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Top requirements met by

• Enable nontechnical people
  to add or edit web pages
• Facilitate timely publication expiration
• Manage the editorial process
• Eliminate the need to maintain
  multiple copies of the same document
  in different formats or for
  different servers

www.cmu.edu/webforum
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Easy to use WYSIWYG editor
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Templates for entering metadata, including start
and expiration dates
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Create HTML, handheld, MS Word, PDF, Text, or XML
with a click of the mouse
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Other key features

• Supports editorial roles contributor, approver,
  publisher, manager, administrator
• Easily revert to older versions of content
• View audit trails of changes
• Publish content to different servers
  in different formats at different times

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Computing Services next steps

• Templates style sheets
• New front door gateway pages
• Documentation training materials

Preparation MarchApril Campus release
MayJune
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THANK YOU!

• Brian Bennett
• Doug Blair
• Judy Brooks
• Carol Carneiro
• Cindy Carroll
• Robert Cavalier
• Eric Chmielewski
• Anne Connell
• Dean Croll

• Kimberly Daboo
• Doug DeJulio
• Ryan Eberhard
• Dot Foote
• Dan Kennedy
• Alex Lang
• Michelle McClory
• Stephen MacNeil
• John Parker

• Sandra Ragusa
• Janet Rex
• Todd Rheinfrank
• Patty Riether
• Stacey Sabo
• Louis Stein
• Beverly Stoughton
• Denise Troll Covey
• Lisa Zirngibl