Manchester University Press Visit Agenda
Journals on the Web
The initial objective is to put one issue of each
journal (6) on the Web in Adobe Acrobat format(.pdf).
- General Questions
- How is a consistent approach to be achieved initially and over time?
- What responsibility for maintenance do MUP want?
- How much training do they need?
- Do they wish to purchase both Adobe and the programme
- Will all issues be held at one time or just current issues? We are expecting 16 issues a year.
- Will they wish to upload past issues?
- How many files in one issue (8)?
- Convert postscript files to .pdf,
- What disk space do they fill?
- How will they be delivered to us?
- Can they be delivered on a CD-ROM?
- What naming convention to be used?
- What order will files be in?
- Front end design
- Are they happy with existing style or do they want redesign?
- Are there additional 'Corporate Identity' logos or stylings which they have on paper or digital?
- Database
- Can we have a contact for technical liason?
- What is the current data design - documents or URLs required.
- What details are needed for logging in?
- Do they want us to supply a separate database?
- How are we to interact with existing DB?
- What data needs to be shared?
- Which database is currently being used?
- Who is maintaining database of subscribers?
- Site Security
- How will the site be updated? (us by FTP?)
- Will we do it or will MUP?
- If we do it we need to have password to site
- Are they happy to give us the site password?
- Search engine
- Is it search across multiple journals and/or issues?
- What are the typical queries?
- Will a fielded search be required? (if so there will be a need for a database).
- Alerting by e-mail for new issues
- Subscribers email address required
- Alert me flag in subscription database
- Subscribers username and password required
- Subscribers query (if required).
- Live Site
- Will the system be stand alone or have to share data, such as subscribers,
with other systems?
- NT or UNIX?
- IIS or Apache?
- Timeframe
- 20 working days to beta then 5 to final upload from acceptance of quote
- thereafter 3 days for new issues from delivery of files
- aim for upload end September
Document Dated: Tue Aug 4 17:00:48 1998
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