P2Rx web call minutes, May 13, 2002

 

Action Items:

• Everyone – respond to Laura’s collection policy for the program directory

·        Everyone -  contact Jean to (a) let her know if you're interested in coming.  (b) when you could come (this summer).  (c) other topics you'd like to cover/work on.  (d) where you'd like to (can afford to travel to) meet.

 

The P2Rx web group met on a conference call, Monday May 13, 2002. Andy (Region 1&2), Curt, (Region 3&4), Todd, Joy (Region 5), Fernando (Region 6), Kathy, Ling, Jean, Matt (Region 7), Laura (Region 8), Crispin (Region 10), and Scott were present on the call.

 

Jean initiated the meeting by leading an update on the content sharing project.  She used a document that identifies remaining tasks, their due dates, and assigns responsibilities.  Then, the four agenda items were covered.

 

1.  Next, Laura reviewed the collection policy for the program directory.  The policy is at http://peakstoprairies.org/pdpolicy.cfm.  It's important that each center gets back to Laura and copies Jean with any comments.  Even if you don't think any changes are needed, let us hear that from you.  Comments should be sent within a week (by May 20).  In addition, Kathy is working on topic hub hierarchies and standardized descriptive vocabulary to make searching easier. 

 

2.  Andy prepared a demo on a search engine he wrote for searching the topic hub databases.  The group reviewed it at http://www.newmoa.org/prevention/topichub.  There's a general search and an advanced search.  If you use the advanced search, you can search by title, description, link source, or link URL, plus you can search using pull-down menus for resource type or keywords.  This search engine is currently constructed to look at a single topic hub at a time.  The advantage to this engine over the EPA search engine, which we're probably going to use for general searching, is that this engine provides access to info held within our topic hub databases that isn't displayed as an actual page.  The web group agreed to put this engine on each of our topic hub pages.  Later, we may try to make this or something like it search among topic hubs - so if you were in automotive, for example, you could get relevant links from other hubs.

 

3.  Fernando reviewed the new admin pages at http://p2.utep.edu/testhubs/admin.  This is still being worked on but will help us create new topic hubs with info needed for content sharing.  Each participant created a new hub, which we used as Fernando walked us through the features of the new pages.

 

 4.  Finally, the group discussed the possible web workshop.  Dates are a bit of a problem.  The group should review the document that Jean sent as an attachment to an email sent on May 13, 2002 that outlines the workshop.  Looking at the content sharing schedule, the demonstration sites should be up and running by the time we could meet in June.  There may be other programming activities the demo centers could benefit from, and all would probably benefit from discussing the architecture behind the content sharing.  We want the experience to be valuable for everyone, though.  Each group member should contact Jean to (a) let her know if you're interested in coming.  (b) when you could come (this summer).  (c) other topics you'd like to cover/work on.  (d) where you'd like to (can afford to travel to) meet.

 

The next web call will be on June 10 at 2:00 PM Eastern, 1:00 PM Central, Noon Mountain and 11:00 AM Pacific.