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Integrated Academic Infrastructure
The first six months
LiMIT Meeting
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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
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KSGHMS
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Course Websites
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Portals, communities, groups, projects
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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
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3. Sharing
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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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