1. The Transparent Website: extensible and flexible content management Julia C. Daniel; UMTRI Everyl Yankee; Yankee Ingenuity

2. The Transparent Website n Content Management System n Taxonomies n Information Dissemination

3. The Transparent Website Team members: n Network Administrator n Programmer n Librarians/Webmaster n Web Usability Consultant

4. Background n Nice looking site but lacking content n 5 years since last revision n Mixed messages/lack of message n Need for collaboration between divisions n No budget The Transparent Website

5. Content Management System n PHP, the chosen programming language n Easy to customize n Very dynamic and flexible n Integrates well with HTML The Transparent Website

6. Content Management System n Content Facilitators selected for each division n Responsible for collecting and uploading content for their respective division n Trained to build web pages and manipulate the taxonomy/metadata The Transparent Website

7. UMTRI Taxonomy consists of 6 taxonomies: The Transparent Website

8. UMTRI META DATA Date (R)Date Accepted Creator (Author ) (R)Date Submitted (S) ContributorRights Title (R)Conforms to Type (R)Format (R) Subject (R)Identifier (S) Publisher (R)Language Audience (R)Available (R) DescriptionAccess Rights R=Required metadata S=System generated metadata

9. The Transparent Website Metadata Content Taxonomy

10. The Transparent Website The taxonomy is reflected in the main navigation for the UMTRI website.

11. Questions? The Transparent Website

12. Thank you! Contact: Julia Daniel; julia.c.daniel@gmail.comjulia.c.daniel@gmail.com Everyl Yankee; eyankee@earthlink.neteyankee@earthlink.net More resources can be found at http://www.yankeeingenuity.us/ The Transparent Website