Content Management System Evaluation Team

The Content Management System (CMS) Evaluation Team was a project group formed at the 2 March 2005 meeting of the eTeaching Steering Committee. The CMS Evaluation Team met 18 times between 22 March and 5 December 2005. Its primary focus was on the use of a CMS as a centralised institutional repository for research and teaching and learning objects at the University of Wollongong.

Membership

Membership of the Team included Helen Mandl (Project Leader, Library), Professor Sandra Wills (CEDIR), Dr. Ric Caladine (CEDIR), Dr. Christine Brown (CEDIR), Associate Professor Lee Astheimer (Biomedical Sciences), Associate Professor Brian Martin (Arts), Dr. Wendy Russell (Biological Sciences), Dr. Jon Cockburn (Creative Arts), Sharon Hughes (Research and Innovation Division), Dr. David Christie (ARD), Joe McIver (ITS – to 31 May2005), Donna Meagher (ITS – from 31 May 2005), and Michael Organ (Library). Megan Huisman (ARD) and Russ Pennell (CEDIR) also attended Team meetings during the latter phase of deliberations.

Reports

Helen Mandl and Michael Organ, UOW Needs Assessment Report, 17 June 2005. Report on interviews with UOW staff regarding use of digital objects and perceived needs.

Michael Organ, Report to eTeaching Steering Committee, 25 October 2005. Report on CMS Team activities to date.

University Library, Wollongong Research Archive Project - Funding Proposal 2005-6, 17 October 2005 [ameneded 7 November 2005], 3p. Includes Library recommendation for puchase of Proquest's Digital Commons for 2006-7.

Prof. Sandra Willis, Content Management System Scenarios for Learning and Teaching Objects, 2 November 2005, 2p.

Content Management: An Institutional Repository for the University of Wollongong. The Way Forward, Final report of the CMS Evaluation Team, 12 December 2005, 15p.

Helen Mandl, Outline of UOW Content Management Infrastructure Projects, December 2005, 1p.

Minutes

1. 22 March 2005
2. 5 April 2005
3. 19 April 2005
4. 3 May 2005
5. 31 May 2005
6. 21 June 2005
7. 5 July 2005
8. 19 July 2005
9. 1 August 2005
10. 15 August 2005
11. 29 August 2005
12. 12 September 2005
13. 26 September 2005
14. 10 October 2005
15. 24 October 2005
16. 7 November 2005
17. 21 November 2005
18. 5 December 2005

Terms of Reference

The CMS Evaluation Team will focus on the use of a CMS as a centralised institutional repository for the purpose of assisting in the development and maintenance of teaching and learning objects and peer reviewed re-usable resources, and for research-based digital objects such as preprints, working papers, e-readings and theses.

1. Assess and report on current practice and University needs relating to the use and maintenance of digital objects.
2. Lead University consultation and discussion on the merits of a CMS
3. Liaise with the Graduate Attributes Outcomes Portfolio Team regarding possible functionality in the systems we explore.
4. Explore the potential for using the system for web content management
5. Develop checklists for the evaluation of potential content management systems
6. Organise presentations and demonstrations of potential CMSs
7. Liaise with key stakeholders and involve them in the process of assessing potential CMSs
8. Evaluate a range of CMSs
9. Recommend a CMS solution for the University
10. Construct a budget for the purchase and implementation of a CMS
11. Provide progress reports to the eTeaching Steering Committee and the Research Standing Committee
12. Develop strategies and incentives to encourage academic staff to use the CMS.

For further information contact: Michael Organ, Project Coordinator – Digital Services, University Library, ext 5536.

12 December 2005