WHAT’S NEW IN UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO’S WEB Andrew McAlorum amcalorum @uwaterloo.ca Pavol Chvala [email protected]Nate Vexler [email protected]Kevin Paxman [email protected]Web Development and Support Information Systems & Technology University of Waterloo WatITis.2015
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WHAT’S NEW IN UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO’S WEB
Andrew McAlo rum amca lo rum@uwate r loo .ca Pavo l Chva la pavo l . chva la@uwate r loo .ca
Na te Vex le r na te .vex le r@uwate r loo .ca Kev in Paxman kpaxman@uwate r loo .ca
Web Deve lopment and Suppor tIn fo rma t ion Sys tems & Techno logy
Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) is the University of Waterloo’s easy to use website creation tool; through constant innovation, collaboration, and client-centred service, we aim to provide the best web experience in Canadian higher education.
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PRIORITIZED FEATURE REQUESTS
• Ranked by Web Advisory Committee to ensure our priorities are aligned with out stakeholders
• Ensures our development priorities are aligned with our stakeholders
SERVICE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS & OPERATIONAL LEVEL AGREEMENTS• SLE sets service level expectations for
clients of all our services and outlines service level targets which we are committed to, such as availability and uptime, notifications of instances and maintenance, and response times.
• Starting to formalize OLAs with units that use WCMS, piloted with the Library
• Improved quality• Efficient descoping• Early reduction of
technical risk • Good enough is better
than perfect• Continual improvement
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CADENCE
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PORTAL
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PORTAL
• Completed rollout to all students• Granted access to all Nexus users by end of 2015• Developed Portal SDK 1.0 and 2.0
Ran 2 hackathon’s (March and October)• Completed redesigns from student feedback in collaboration with MSC designers• Completely revamped and redesigned our backend API• Much improved Identity Management system in the portal backend allowing us to
identify and target groups of students with relevant content more precisely• Widgets released
Awards, athletics shoetags, blogs, computer labs, feds clubs & services, exams assigned seating, open classrooms, campus map, it services, opportunities, orientation, to do, watcard
• Outreach/Education: Course - Introduction to APIs SEW126Active participation with coursework HLTH 473 / HSG 620Office Hours (Internal and External clients)Collaborations
• Hackathons• More data (e.g. GTFS real-time)
• Work for Clients (and everyone benefits)Campus MapWCMSPortal
• Internal InfrastructureContinuous Integration improvementsComparison against similar systems out there
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OPEN DATAONGOING / FUTUREI S T / A B O U T / O R G A N I Z AT I O N A L - S T R U C T U R E / C L I E N T- S E R V I C E S / 3 - Y E A R - P L A N• Outreach/Education
Improve documentation (make it more interactive) Continuation of Office Hours
• Work for Clients (and everyone benefits)Target non-developer business analysts w/ prototyping/production toolsSupport for non other APIs (Learn API)Improve GIS features of API (in support of Campus Map)API Support for Research DataCreate Once Publish Everywhere SupportWrite to API
• Internal ImprovementsImprove CIA: Confidentiality/Integrity/Accessibil ityOperation Level Agreements between Open Data and Data Stewards/Primary CustodiansContinuous IntegrationSelf-provisioned / Quick to provision architectureInvestigating the handling of large amounts of time-series dataCRUD support to API HATEOS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State)
WCMSW C M S 1 . 1 0 – F e b r u a r y• S c h e d u l e d c o n t e n t p u b l i s h i n g• S u b m i t R Ts f r o m d a s h b o a r d• S i t e s p e c i f i c s e a r c h• G o o g l e U n i v e r s a l A n a l y t i c s s u p p o r t• D e c i m a l o r d e r e d l i s t s• 1 . 1 0 . 1 , 1 . 1 0 . 2 m i n o r r e l e a s e s
C o l l a b o r a t e 2 . 0 – J u n e• F u l l y r e s p o n s i v e , D r u p a l 7 v e r s i o n o f t h e C o l l a b o r a t e
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W C M S 1 . 11 – J u n e• J o b a n d Vo l u n t e e r O p p o r t u n i t i e s c o n t e n t t y p e• B l o g c o m m e n t i n g• F a c e b o o k O p e n G r a p h a n d Tw i t t e r C a r d s u p p o r t f o r
e n h a n c e d s o c i a l m e d i a s h a r i n g• U p g r a d e d , R e s p o n s i v e W Y S I W Y G E d i t o r• V i m e o s u p p o r t• T i n t s u p p o r t• M a t l a b f i l e t y p e s u p p o r t• 1 . 11 . 1 , 1 . 11 . 2 m i n o r r e l e a s e s
WCMS Pub l icat ions Beta – September• Pub l i s h d ig i t a l v e r s i ons o f a r t i c l es• Mana ge i s s ues a nd v o l umes o f d i g i t a l
pub l i c a t i ons• A r c h i v e o l de r i s s ues• Pub l i c a t i on s ec t i o ns / c a t eg o r i es• F ea t u r e d and p r omo t i o na l c on t en t a r e as• Soc i a l med i a i n te g r a t i o n
WCMS 1 .12 – September• B ib l i og r aph y c on t en t t y pe t o l i s t s c ho l a r l y
pub l i c a t i ons• Embed ded Time l i ne • Sc ho l a r s h ips a nd S t ude n t Aw ar d s c on t en t t y pe• S i t e - w ide a u t hen t i c a t ed a c c es s• Ma i l c h imp i n t eg r a t i on• Sy n t ax h i gh l i gh t i ng i n s ou r c e v i ew o f t he e d i t o r• 1 . 12 .1 , 1 . 12 .2 m i no r r e l ea s es
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WCMS RESPONSIVE REDEVELOPMENT
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‘AVAILABLE IN A VARIETY OF SIZES’
• Faculties, Departments, Schools, and Units (FDSU)• Publications• Single Page Sites• Conferences• Researcher Websites• COPE – Content Marketing Hub• Home Page
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PUBLICATIONSA mobi le-fr iendly, responsive template specif ical ly designed for digi ta l versions of Universi ty of Water loo publ icat ions including newslet ters, reports and magazines.
Decoupled Drupal environmentBackend is WCMS fami l ia r to s i te main ta inersFrontend is Angular.JS
Current ly in BETA, ful ly re leased for January 2016.