RE: net-model group publications in CSS

["Johnson Chen" <hchenj@cs.sfu.ca>]

Hi Joe,

I have talked with Barry last week, he has a flexible template for website,
and the template has been used in several lab websites, e.g. Gruvi lab. The
major advantage of the template is its ease of maintenance: prof. members
and website admin. can update their own parts, e.g. publications, by userid
and password. Besides, all the information is stored in one database, the
website scripts will load updated content from the DB automatically, thus
avoid to modify webpages directly. One prossible "disadvantage" is that, the
DB is shared with CSS website, more specifically, prof. information stored
in this DB might be displayed in our website and CSS website simultaneously.

Instead of adopting the template completely, we could use part of it, stay
away from the shared sections, which will be developed by ourselvies, for
instance, create proprietary tables to store information in the DB. The
third alternative is to stick to the current version developed by
ourselvies.

Johnson

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Peters [mailto:peters@cs.sfu.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:56 AM
To: shell@sfu.ca
Cc: hchenj@cs.sfu.ca
Subject: Re: net-model group publications in CSS


That sounds really good Barry.  I'm copying your e-mail to Johnson Chen
so that he can contact you directly for more information.

Joe.

>X-Sender: shell@cs.sfu.ca
>Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:58:20 -0800
>To: Joseph Peters <peters@cs.sfu.ca>
>From: Barry Shell <shell@sfu.ca>
>Subject: Re: net-model group publications in CSS
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>At 04:07 PM 10/29/2002, you wrote:
>>Thanks Barry.  I think that this is a case of me not communicating
precisely
>>enough.  I asked Johnson to create an archive of the Network Group's
>>publications.  The first step is to get a list of publications of the
>>faculty members and I suggested that CSS might be a good place to start
>>since CSS maintains web pages.  However, I'm sure that you are right that
>>the actual papers would not be there.  I do think that we are most likely
>>to succeed with this project if we just ask faculty to add links to their
>>papers.
>
>We do have a very nice and simple database for tracking people's
>publications that you could use. Within this system you can point to the
>location of the actual papers. The system is a database so papers can be
>sorted by year, author, etc. It has other features and is linked to all the
>other information we have on individuals.
>