From sroman at lternet.edu Fri Jun 11 14:19:23 2004 From: sroman at lternet.edu (Samantha J Romanello) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:19:23 -0600 Subject: [seek-web] web site progress In-Reply-To: <000701c441d5$f842bfa0$dd461881@LTERNET221> References: <000701c441d5$f842bfa0$dd461881@LTERNET221> Message-ID: <40CA21DB.506@lternet.edu> Hi Steve I promised you a list of technical things (like forever ago ;-) ) that would be helpful from an EOT perspective so here it is: (CAVEAT :-) : As I am not an IT person I have probably phrased stuff incorrectly or asked for things that are either impossible...or already available under current functionality and I just have no clue ;-) . Either way, I guess I need to know) 1) capability to have online evaluations: I am currently using http://www.surveymonkey.com/ for this but would like to have the survey and the data on our own site. 2) a content management system for online education/training modules which would include streaming video, real-time and delayed online communication, and maybe some other interactive tools that you could suggest?!?! 3) a way to set up a form or create some static format for some of these pages. I guess I am thinking about the pages for trainings which ideally could all follow the same format. I also think that if we want others to add information to the pages that formatting (making static) certain things may be good. 4) An easier way to attach icons, images, and documents that can be downloaded by workshop participants and other interested SEEKers. I guess the idea here is that if we do want individuals to use some of the educational materials to teach ecoinformatics (train the trainer) or even when the SEEKers give presentations then we need to create a "corporate image" and downloadable materials (PPTs, icons, images) that help to create a consistent message and image would be helpful. Well I think that is it for now. But as I am currently working on copy and formatting for the educational section of the website I am sure I will have more "wish list" items. Have a great weekend samantha / / From stekell at lternet.edu Fri Jun 25 14:29:18 2004 From: stekell at lternet.edu (Steve Tekell) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:29:18 -0600 Subject: [seek-web] new SEEK web site In-Reply-To: <000701c441d5$f842bfa0$dd461881@LTERNET221> Message-ID: <004401c45afb$78aa3bd0$dd461881@LTERNET221> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/ members of SEEK have access to create and edit content. By members of SEEK I mean members of the seek user group in the SEEK LDAP directory, in case we need to add or remove members. Matt has access to do this. From stekell at lternet.edu Fri Jun 25 15:12:28 2004 From: stekell at lternet.edu (Steve Tekell) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:12:28 -0600 Subject: [seek-web] new SEEK web site In-Reply-To: <004401c45afb$78aa3bd0$dd461881@LTERNET221> Message-ID: <004501c45b01$80b6e020$dd461881@LTERNET221> sorry all it'll be up shortly - I hope. It was working when I sent this out. I think Matt is in the middle of making some server changes now and it'll be working again shortly. > -----Original Message----- > From: seek-web-admin at ecoinformatics.org > [mailto:seek-web-admin at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Steve Tekell > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 3:29 PM > To: seek-web at ecoinformatics.org > Subject: [seek-web] new SEEK web site > > > http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/ > > members of SEEK have access to create and edit content. > > By members of SEEK I mean members of the seek user group in > the SEEK LDAP directory, in case we need to add or remove > members. Matt has access to do this. > > _______________________________________________ > seek-web mailing list > seek-web at ecoinformatics.org > http://www.ecoinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo> /seek-web > From stekell at lternet.edu Fri Jun 25 16:19:23 2004 From: stekell at lternet.edu (Steve Tekell) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:19:23 -0600 Subject: [seek-web] new SEEK web site In-Reply-To: <004501c45b01$80b6e020$dd461881@LTERNET221> Message-ID: <004601c45b0a$d9cda4b0$dd461881@LTERNET221> ok the web site is back up. http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/ We just have some configuration issue or something that reveals it's problems when I make an update web app and requires help from Matt to restart. Hopefully we can resolve those configuration issues to prevent that in the future. From jones at nceas.ucsb.edu Fri Jun 25 16:25:27 2004 From: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu (Matt Jones) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:25:27 -0800 Subject: [seek-web] new SEEK web site In-Reply-To: <004601c45b0a$d9cda4b0$dd461881@LTERNET221> References: <004601c45b0a$d9cda4b0$dd461881@LTERNET221> Message-ID: <40DCB467.1040703@nceas.ucsb.edu> A quick followup. This new site is a wiki. It should make contributions much easier. I'd like to phase out the SEEK wikis at Kansas and Napier so that we keep SEEK materials consolidated in one place. Steve has already converted most (if not all) of the materials on http://seek.speciesanalyst.net to this new site, so lets try to not add anything new there. The pages from the Kansas site can generally be found under the new site under 'Community', where each of the subprojects of SEEK has a working page for wiki stuff. I htink we can consider those pages as an 'intranet'. Steve will be sending out a detailed email with instructions soon. Matt Steve Tekell wrote: > ok the web site is back up. > > http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/ > > We just have some configuration issue or something that reveals it's > problems when I make an update web app and requires help from Matt to > restart. Hopefully we can resolve those configuration issues to prevent > that in the future. > > > _______________________________________________ > seek-web mailing list > seek-web at ecoinformatics.org > http://www.ecoinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/seek-web -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Jones jones at nceas.ucsb.edu http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ Fax: 425-920-2439 Ph: 907-789-0496 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) University of California Santa Barbara Interested in ecological informatics? http://www.ecoinformatics.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- From jones at nceas.ucsb.edu Fri Jun 25 17:06:45 2004 From: jones at nceas.ucsb.edu (Matt Jones) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:06:45 -0800 Subject: [seek-web] new SEEK web site In-Reply-To: <40DCB467.1040703@nceas.ucsb.edu> References: <004601c45b0a$d9cda4b0$dd461881@LTERNET221> <40DCB467.1040703@nceas.ucsb.edu> Message-ID: <40DCBE15.7000505@nceas.ucsb.edu> Steve, I also just started a quick wiki page on Authentication and changing passwords that can be found here: http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Authentication I linked it into the 'About This Site' section, but we might want to link it other places too. In particular, it should probably be linked into the 'Login to SEEK - WIki' page that is presented when people need to login. We may even want to append it at the bottom of that page so people have direct access to the information. But I couldn't figure out how to do either of those things. Matt Matt Jones wrote: > A quick followup. This new site is a wiki. It should make > contributions much easier. I'd like to phase out the SEEK wikis at > Kansas and Napier so that we keep SEEK materials consolidated in one > place. Steve has already converted most (if not all) of the materials > on http://seek.speciesanalyst.net to this new site, so lets try to not > add anything new there. The pages from the Kansas site can generally be > found under the new site under 'Community', where each of the > subprojects of SEEK has a working page for wiki stuff. I htink we can > consider those pages as an 'intranet'. > > Steve will be sending out a detailed email with instructions soon. > > Matt > > Steve Tekell wrote: > >> ok the web site is back up. >> >> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/ >> >> We just have some configuration issue or something that reveals it's >> problems when I make an update web app and requires help from Matt to >> restart. Hopefully we can resolve those configuration issues to prevent >> that in the future. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> seek-web mailing list >> seek-web at ecoinformatics.org >> http://www.ecoinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/seek-web > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Jones jones at nceas.ucsb.edu http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ Fax: 425-920-2439 Ph: 907-789-0496 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) University of California Santa Barbara Interested in ecological informatics? http://www.ecoinformatics.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- From stekell at lternet.edu Mon Jun 28 15:40:10 2004 From: stekell at lternet.edu (Steve Tekell) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:40:10 -0600 Subject: [seek-web] New SEEK Web Site Message-ID: <000201c45d60$de788360$dd461881@LTERNET221> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org As Matt stated, the new site is Wiki based and will allow any member of SEEK to create pages, edit pages and upload files. When you click on "Edit This Page" (at the bottom of a page), you will be required to log in (if you aren't already logged in). SEEK security it based off an aggregation of LDAP accounts from several affiliated organizations. So you will not create a separate account for working with the SEEK web site, but rather specify the organization you are affiliated with (LTER, NCEAS, KU, etc) and provide the username and password for that account. Here's a page with some more information. http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Authentication For help with Wiki and JspWiki specifically, what is it, how to use it, etc, you will find help under About This Site -> WikiHelp http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=WikiHelp Creating A New Page ------------------- To Create a new page, create a link to a new page on an existing page, then follow the link that created to the new page. You could also just type in a URL for a new page. To create a link, use brackets such as, [MyPage], for a link to a page called "MyPage", or add text to display for the link [Some Text | MyPage] for a link that displays "Some Text" to MyPage. NOTE: for those of you who have used other Wikis, CamelCase is not automatically a wiki link. Please create meaningful names for pages which properly distinguish them. For example, "Notes" would be a bad choice, whereas "SEEKExecMeetingNotes_02_Feb_2003" is good. Remember, page name used for the page title. Editing A Page -------------- To Edit A Page, click on "Edit This Page" at the bottom. Make changes and save or preview first, go back and then save. If you decide not to make any edits, then click cancel. Formatting Help --------------- Wiki provides a few simple formatting options that allow you do more than just plain text. You can create bold and italic text, headings, bullets, links and more. A short list of formatting rules are provided at the bottom of the edit screen. More details are found on the TextFormattingRules page (found under About This Site -> WikiHelp) http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=TextFormattingRules More On Formatting And Editing ------------------------------ The online help is extensive, but here's few notes, some of which highlight differences between JspWiki that this site uses and OpenWiki which the old wiki used. Many formatting characters, other than __bold__ and ''italic'', need to begin in the first column, e.g., * the asterisk will create a bullet ** two asterisks will create a secondary bullet * but if you put in a space first, it won't become a bullet, just an asterisk Headings must also begin in the first column !!! Heading 1 or Biggest Heading !! Heading 2 ! Heading 3 Headings create the possibility for intra-page links. So if you have a heading like !! My Heading you could create a intra-page link like [Link Text | MyPage#MyHeading] To create a link to an attachment on the same page: [Link Text | some-ppt-file.ppt] To create a link to an attachment on another page: [Link Text | OtherPage/some-ppt-file.ppt] To imbed a graphic, create a link to it - *.gif, *.jpg, *.png will become embedded images on the page, whereas other file types will just be a link. One thing that's can't be show properly in the online help is using the triple curly brackets for a block quote. {{{ this text would be a block quote, useful for displaying programming code or blocks or preformatted text that needs to ignore wiki formatting characters }}} Deleting a page --------------- There is not a systematic way to delete files (yet). This is currently a manual administrative task. To mark a file for deletion put "DELETEME" at the top. (all one word without quotes). Versioning ---------- JspWiki has built in versioning. Going to "more info" will allow you view, compare or retrieve older versions of file. So there is no need to be real timid about editing pages. SandBox ------- As mentioned in the online help, you can use the SandBox page to tinker around and learn wiki. http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=SandBox Not to mention looking at any existing page, to how something was done. ---------------------------------------------------- Steve Tekell stekell at lternet.edu SEEK-Web http://seek.ecoinformatics.org ----------------------------------------------------