Web Council - 10/21/10
- YouTube videos - Harry Hayward
- Is there a UW process for uploading stuff to YouTube?
- Yes, there is. We should get together and talk about it.
- Harry met with the Attorney General's office and reviewed the YouTube terms of service
- YouTube assumes you have the copyright and have releases from people in the video
- If they do notice that you are likely violating someone else's copyright, YouTube may send you a notice
- Once your stuff is on YouTube, anyone can take a copy of it, modify it, do a mashup, or whatever
- YouTube is not the place to put things you want to maintain control over
- Harry wants the 28 people with YouTube channels to meet and talk about how to go forward with videos
- There is a way to put stuff on YouTube and restrict who can see it, but once someone distributes it to others, "the genie is out of the bottle"
- Office of Research is watermarking their videos
- We could look into defining a standard UW watermark and process for using it
- Other video services have tighter controls on use than YouTube ("YouTube is the wild west")
- We are in the process discussing bringing UWTV together with iTunes U
- Is there a UW process for uploading stuff to YouTube?
- Improving Our Web - Gina Hills and Steve Mark of Siteimprove
- Gina has been looking into SiteCheck (http://siteimprove.com), a possible tool we could use for improving the UW Web. SiteCheck scans sites for spelling, accessibility, broken links and other problems, generating task lists of things to fix
- Other tools are available but few are as well integrated as SiteCheck
- SortSite (http://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/index.htm)
- Compliance Sheriff (http://hisoftware.com/products/compliancesheriffoverview.htm)
- Many other tools, such as Integrity link checker (http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/) are available, often for free, but are usually single-task tools.
- Other tools are available but few are as well integrated as SiteCheck
- Might be able to get funding for a pilot project to make SiteCheck available
- Starts at $4000 for 5000 pages per year, has bulk discounts
- Once we have a few cleanup cycles, could lengthen the time between scans to lower costs
- Could pull together a working group to explore how to use such a tool
- Demonstration (through WebEx) of SiteCheck by Steve Mark of SiteImprove.com
- Service runs automatic scan of Web site every five days, sends you a report
- Services is located on Siteimprove Web sites; no software to download or install
- Uses Microsoft Office dictionary for spell check, English/US dictionary, backed up with Mexico dictionary. More dictionaries can added
- Scan results can be broken down by sub-site, so that each content editor can get results for the section they manage
- Can click through the report to a specific page - errors are highlighted (misspellings with red frowny faces)
- Keeps track between scans, tells you how many days a link has been bad
- Can make a whitelist of links to ignore
- When errors are found, you can view pages with highlighted errors, click on each error, and
choose whether the error should be added to a to-do list of words to fix and pages where they are located- List of accessibility errors have links to WCAG or 508 criteria related to the error
- SiteCheck also generates a site inventory
- Builds an index to every word on the site, makes it easy to make changes to department names, staff names, phone numbers, etc.
- Builds index of referrals, which show which pages are referring to a specific page, helping track down locations with content related to pages being updated
- Builds index of email addresses, useful for updates
- Cannot presently access password protected areas - site needs to be public for SiteCheck to be able to scan it
- Generally do not like to try to go into protected areas for security or privacy reasons
- Accessibility report
- Accessibility can evaluate by both WCAG and 508, or either
- Currently using WCAG 1 guidelines, expect to upgrade to WCAG2 in November
- SiteCheck is being upgraded in November
- You can preview the new version of SiteCheck at http://www.siteimprove.com/preview/us . The update is expected in November.
- Access for each user can be assigned on the basis of role, giving individual, group-wise, or world permissions
- If you are interested in helping to evaluate SiteCheck, contact Gina
- Gina has been looking into SiteCheck (http://siteimprove.com), a possible tool we could use for improving the UW Web. SiteCheck scans sites for spelling, accessibility, broken links and other problems, generating task lists of things to fix
- News & Information News Feeds are Migrating
- Chris Heiland is working on moving news feeds to new technology, changes should be transparent to people using the feeds
- ISchool is offering some modules and plug-ins for Drupal users
- Can be downloaded from http://drupal.ischool.uw.edu/projects
- Contact Ryan Ositis (rositis@uw.edu) for more information