Content management discovery (2007)

Proposal – Initiated May 2007

At the core of our constituent engagment is the content that is delivered through Bates core Web site at www.bates.edu. Although there are strengths in the current publishing process — regularly-produced Bates stories crafted in words and images, a single system for Web publishing, and a large number of contributors — there are a number of important challenges that can’t be currently resolved without hundreds of hours of administrative updates and custom programming.

Therefore, a discovery project is being proposed to gather and prioritize requested features, identify existing campus resources, and propose solutions that meet Bates’ needs, whether through a system upgrade or migration to a new system.