Ambassador, Page & McGhee combined
Apostrophe CMS for Trinity
Brett Walters, Emily Bahna, Trinity Technology Services; Geoff DiMasi, P’unk Avenue; Chris Geddings, Economics;
Trinity College and Arts & Sciences (TCAS) launched its new website in June 2008 built on a Symfony-based open source php framework, called Apostrophe. Websites built in the framework integrate data from Duke enterprise services (calendar, enterprise directory, news feeds, and faculty and student portals), allow multimedia content to be added and updated easily, leverage Shibboleth login, and provide an open system for moving and sharing content on a site. A goal is to foster Apostrophe as a campus resource for any/all Duke departments or offices that wish to utilize the application as a content management system.
Uniting the Web Presence of Duke School of Medicine
Donald Phillips, DHTS Web Services
An exploration of the ongoing project to re-brand, consolidate and update the multitude of websites and web applications under the Duke University School of Medicine.
Innovation: Microsoft and Duke’s Campus Agreement and Windows 7
Chad Kearsley, Kevin Dean, Microsoft Higher Education; Evan Levine, OIT Software License
This presentation will focus on Microsoft's innovations and the release of Windows 7 as it pertains to higher education and Duke University.
In addition to discussing the latest from Microsoft, we will share interesting statistics regarding the surprisingly high usage
of the Microsoft Campus Agreement at Duke, the effect it has had on Duke's support structure, and a detailed explanation of what products are
available and how to get them. We expect Q&A will likely focus more on these latter topics and will make sure to leave ample time.
Online Video Platform: Workflow, Tools and Technologies
Aby Rao, Student Affairs
Ever wondered how hulu.com works behind the scene or what happens when you click on the play button to watch your favorite show online? With the help of high speed Internet, real-time distribution of audio, video and multimedia it is made possible by various streaming media technologies. In this presentation, the audience will be introduced to the online video management landscape and the publishing model in practice. Discussion will also include some of the cost-effective ways of building and maintaining online video platform using open source tools and technologies.
Project OZ - Managing Collaborative Tool Suites for Courses with Grouper
Mark McCahill, Liz Wendland, Shilen Patel, OIT
Project OZ simplifies creation of multi-application coursework tool suites with a web-based group management tool used to manage both centrally provisioned groups (enrolled students) and ad-hoc instructor-defined groups (visitors and class auditors). Groups are defined once in OZ, then applied to a variety of applications to control access and rights. Rather than a one-size-fits all approach, custom tool suites are selected ala carte by the instructor, and include Jabber/XMPP chatrooms, shared webfiles space, wiki sites, mailing lists, SMS notifications, and access to VCL (virtual computer lab) - a VMware computing environment reservation system. Leveraging Internet2 middleware including Grouper and Shibboleth, OZ makes it as easy to manage access to best-of-breed applications and move beyond monolithic course management systems. In this presentation we discuss the OZ design goals, user interface, application plugin architecture, initial experiences during the OZ pilot, and how OZ might be extended to support collaborative research group tool suites.