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2006 Campus Technology Innovators: The Web
7/22/2006
GVC.SiteMaker, and a high priority now is to get the technology in use at other universities. With the latest version (4.1), it is possible to export user-defined solutions to an XML archive that can be imported into any SiteMaker site, at UM or elsewhere. “This will allow other institutions that adopt the technology to leverage what our users have already built,” says Maybaum.“My vision is for this to eventually create a community of ‘user-developers’ who are not programmers.”Advice
“Supporting creative scholarship is the right thing to do,” says Maybaum, “but if you use technology designed for this purpose, it makes business sense, too!” Take, for example, this UM.SiteMaker success story:
A professor sent a grant application to the National Science Foundation, for a project on the history of substance abuse research. Part of the proposed project involved building a web database as the mechanism for organizing and disseminating interviews, artifacts, and other materials. Yet the projected cost of the database ($30,000, according to three vendor estimates) was keeping the grant from going through.
Using UM.SiteMaker, it took about a day to make what the professor needed. She revised her grant application, and it looks like the project will be funded, this time around. The NSF recognized the use of UM.SiteMaker as a significant improvement over the previous grant proposal. Technology to the budget rescue!
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