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Web Communications Group Meeting: 12-06-05
Meeting minutes

I. Leaders of the individual working groups provided brief updates on their group's progress:

A. Content Management System Working Group -

• A representative from Hannon Hill performed a demonstration of their CMS product entitled Cascade Server. The group was very impressed with the product.
• The Medical School web staff invited WCG dmembers to their office for a presentation on the Macromedia Contribute product that they are currently using.
• The group plans to have a demo by OmniUpdate sometime in the next couple of months.

B. Digital Asset Management System Working Group -

• The group met with the Penn Library web staff in November where they were given a demonstration on how the Library staff manages their vast catalog of digital assets. The demonstration focused on how the Library web staff manages assets in the University Archives Digital Image Collection.
• SAS recently purchased and installed a new digital asset management system titled Extensis Portfolio and agreed to demonstrate the system to the DAMS working group in early 2006.

C. Web Analytics Working Group -

• This group still has no leader. The WCG will wait for the other working groups to wrap up and then have someone volunteer to lead this group.

D. RSS Working Group -

• The group has started to discuss how the central Penn web could aggregate RSS feeds from the other Penn schools.

II. RSS Presentation: "What is RSS?" By Sanjay Modi, IT Project Leader for Knowledge@Wharton

• This presentation is available for viewing in Power Point format.
• There was a brief discussion after the presentation on the what role the central Penn web could play in RSS distribution.
• The group also discussed concerns of content ownership and problems that may arise from RSS content distribution.

III. University Communications informed the group that they will propose a redesign of the central Penn web for fiscal year 2007 and that the WCG may be used as a forum for committee members to give their input and ideas regarding this project.

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