University Administrative Systems and the Web- Towards Intranets
About the Workshop University Information Systems and the Web
This full day workshop focuses on the use of the Web to enrich access to
and use of University Information Systems. It takes the form of presentations
and demonstrations of:
- examples what has been done by different institutions; and
- a panel discussion of issues relating to Web development: security,
authentication, tools, opportunities for co-operation etc
The workshop will give attendees the opportunity to see what a broad range
of institutions have done, across a range of information system areas (Student,
Finance, Human Resource Management, and training in the use of these systems).
There will also be an opportunity to discuss issues of common interest.
It is expected that attendees will have some familiarity, but not a detailed
knowledge, of the Web and Web Forms. The workshop is intended to show attendees
what can be done, rather than how to do it.
Who should attend
Managers in the following areas of University administration: information
technology, student, financial or human resource administration. While the
Workshop is primarily based on university systems it will be of interest
to MIS managers and administrators of larger organisations interested in
the interfacing of administrative systems and the Web and building of "Intranets".
About the Workshop Presenters
Organisers:
Chris McGovern (C.McGovern@its.gu.edu.au).
Currently a systems analyst at Griffith
University, his career spans 20 years in information technology within
Universities in Australia and New Guinea. For the past 8 years he has been
responsible for the development of the major corporate systems within Griffith
University. During the past six months she has been responsible for the
development of a distributed, Web based front end to the University's recruitment
processes. Major interests include Web development, document management
and imaging technology.
Gene Kraybill Training Officer (g.kraybill@cosmos.curtin.edu.au)
of Curtin University of Technology.
Gene has 20 years experience spanning education, journalism and computer
software development and training. Ten years in writing and editing for
newspapers and magazines, including publishing credits in the Bulletin,
Australian Business Monthly, Far Eastern Economic Review, Washington Post,
etc. Seven years in computer training for commercial, government and educational
organisations in Western Australia (currently, Staff Training Officer in
Management Information Systems at Curtin University). Developer of simple
but effective multimedia approach to computer training, known as TASK (Training
and Support Kit). Project manager for major Web publishing project (publishing
Curtin's Academic Policies and Procedures in HTML).
Other Presenters:
Judy Waugh is theAssociate Director Computing Services (MIS) at QUT.
Judy started her IT life and her family in Canberra in the Sixties. She
enjoyed the luxury of being a full-time mother till the early Eighties,
when she did further study and re-entered the workforce.
Gareth Roblin. Gareth is a recent graduate from QUT, who has worked
significant magic in the year he's worked with MIS developing the data warehouse.
Sue Heng. Currently a project leader for the Student Information
System at the University of Western Australia, Sue has over 20 years experience
in commercial and University information technology development.
Julian Hyde. Director Administrative Computing Services at Charles
Sturt University. Julian has been a developer of business, administrative
and library systems for over 30 years, and has worked at Monash and Macquarie
Universities.
Andrew Humphrey CWIS Administrator(ITS) at the University of Melbourne.
Is developing Web front ends to traditional client-server applications and
on designing a database system suitable for use in the Handbook project.
Previously Andrew worked at Monash. His interests include Java and the problem
of authentication.
The Workshop Program
8:30am -9.30am Coffee available until 9:30am, registration
9:30am The QUT Data Warehouse Project
This session looks at the background to the project and will include a demonstration
of the data warehouse. The warehouse is an Oracle database with an Netscape
front-end. The data warehouse integrates information from a variety of administrative
systems including the personnel/payroll package, the student information
system, and finance.
The data warehouse is centred around QUT clients - who they are, where they
are, and what they're doing. All staff have a home page where they keep
their contact details up-to-date. Students also have individual home pages
showing current enrolments and academic history. Staff and students can
choose to release or withhold personal information (such as their image
from their ID cards).
10.30am A Web Based Interface to Recruitment Processes
Griffith has developed a Web based system to enable distributed entry of
recruitment advertising, appointment details and production of offer letters.
The system provides validation of information, capture of statistical information,
efficient generation of advertising composites, a tracking facility and
basic electronic approvals. The presentation will include a background to
the project, a demonstration of the system, and a discussion of issue that
have emerged.
11.30am WWW services for staff and students based on Oracle databases
Julian will present on developments in these areas at UWS during 1996. Previously
UWS have developed some reporting and download facilities and expect to
be early adopters of the Banner Web product (Julian hopes to be able to
relate experiences of this). Some important themes are provision of easy
navigation, printing and downloads to PC packages, and delivery of services
to remote campuses and students.
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Delivering Task-Oriented Computer Documentation and Training via
the Web
This session will focus on a simple, experimental Web-based approach to
developing and delivering computer documentation and training, and linking
that with Web-based Policy and Procedure documents for the creation of an
integrated on-line system where information can be easily updated. The approach
includes a way of delivering narrated screen demonstrations that relate
closely to step-by-step user guides. It also avoids the need to maintain
documentation in more than one format, by permitting the use of an HTML
document as the master for any print versions of the documentation.
2.30pm Web Access to the Student Information System at UWA
The presentation will describe the implementation of such a WWW interface
to the current Student Records database at the University of Western Australia.
It provides staff and students with easy enquiry/update access to a variety
of information including class lists, student academic and enrolment details,
and enables students to change basic personal information.
3:15pm-3:30pm Afternoon Tea
3:30pm Document production using SGML
This presentation will give a short introduction to SGML. The benefits it
can provide include enhanced quality control through data validation at
time of entry, removal of redundant information and the easy generation
of multiple views of the same data, including HTML for the web, Desktop
published versions for printing and a format suitable for inclusion on a
CD-ROM. We will also discuss what SGML isn't and finally how it is related
to HTML.
This will be followed by an examination of an application of SGML to a real-world
problem, the Student Handbook of the University of Melbourne. This will
include a discussion of the tools which are being used in the performance
of the task (Grif, Omnimark, RCS, and others), the development cycle of
the DTD for the handbook and will close with a discussion of the problems
that have been encountered and conquered in the project.
4.15pm Panel session
5.00pm Close
Updated on 23 May 1996 by ausweb96@scu.edu.au
AusWeb96 - The Second Australian World Wide Web Conference, 7th
to 9th of July 1996, at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel, Gold Coast, Australia.
Contact: Ms Julie Burton, Norsearch Conference Services at Southern Cross
University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. Phone (066) 20 3000
(From outside Australia +61 66 20 3000) Fax: (066) 22 1954 (From outside
Australia +61 66 22 1954). Email: ausweb96@scu.edu.au.
Updated on
23 May 1996 by ausweb96@scu.edu.au