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HARVARD UNIVERSITY iCOMMONS March 28, 2007 1 Integrated Academic Infrastructure The first six months LiMIT Meeting March 28, 2007 Susan A. Rogers

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Integrated Academic Infrastructure

The first six months

LiMIT Meeting

March 28, 2007

Susan A. Rogers

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1. CONTENT and VIEWERS

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A growing collection of academic content: + 5,000 courses a year

FAS

FAS -DCE

HGSE

HDS

HSPH

HGSD

HLS

Arnold Arbor

HBS

KSGHMS

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Course Websites

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Portals, communities, groups, projects

5000

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CourseNon-Course

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Traffic in Jan 2007

Name of site, community, or department Unique Users

Unique

IP's

my.harvard (FAS Student Portal) 12417 25856

myHLS (Law School Student Portal) 2044 4913

MyHSPH (Public Health Student Portal) 1066 1676

Alumni Affairs and Development Intranet 988 1267

Harvard Extension School Intranet 779 1401

FAS Core Program Site 351 393

Course iSites Help Center (User documentation) 254 279

FAS Freshman Dean’s Office 101 137

Capital Project Services (Admin Group Site) 111 129

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Student Portals & Intranets

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Student organizations

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Library Resources

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Reserve reading tool - HUL OIS/iCommons

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Academic Departments & Centers

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Online case studies

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Administrative Sites

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In addition, there are dozens of internal, private iSites for members only

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For example, the AAD Intranet

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Harvard University Art Museums Intranet

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Traffic

18,000 visitors on a peak day

44,000 unique visitors per month

3.5 million page views are generated each week

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2. AUTHORS

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User-created content

21,960 unique authors

55% of these are students

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Suite of tools for publishing and collaboration

• HTML Publishing• Announcements• Links• File Distribution• Slide Carousel• Full Text Search• File Sharing• Blog • Wiki• RSS Tool• Profiles Tool • Discussions• Podcast Tool• Embed Video Toolnew

new

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3. Sharing

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81* Latin American Cinema

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Permissions are set for the site or topic

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4. Content modules

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“Topics” are our building blocks

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User-created content

110,000 topics

350,000 digital objects: files, images, postings, and documents

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5. Next steps

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Freeing content from sites of origin

• Let all users benefit from the rich content in the system (that they have permission to see)

• 21% of existing topics are world-viewable

• Others may be shared within communities and defined groups

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Things that will travel with each topic

• Topic branding• Permissions• Author(s)• Operational metadata• Context• Metadata • Informal tags

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Search and discovery

• Permission-aware full-text search• Metadata and tag searching

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Integration within Harvard is substantial

Now we all want to bring content and functionality in from the outside

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Off-the-shelf, distributed philosophy

• The infrastructure is built on industry-standard components and software packages

• Commitment to interoperability– web application and emerging standards

• Users can develop their own tools– That can run anywhere, in any programming

language

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