Academic Information Technology Committee
March 17, 2003
Minutes
Attending: Judy Barlow (SOM), Donald Dement (CTLE), Linda Khan (Library),
Wendy Helmstetter (Library guest), Celine Lang (Information Services), Steve
Lazarus (COE), Dick Newman (Information Technology), Dee Dee Pannell
(ACS/SCT), Bob Schuster (SOA), Kurt Winkelmann (CSLA), and Mary
Bonhomme (SEGS), Chair
Absent: Mike Andrews (COE), Bill Gabrenya (Psychology), Rick Tankersley
(CSLA), and Jay Wilson (ADITC)
Minutes – The minutes from February 17 meeting were approved as distributed.
ITEC – Report pre-empted for Faculty Mini-grant selection.
ADITC – Report pre-empted for Faculty Mini-grant selection.
ACS – Report attached.
Vice President for IT – Report pre-empted for Faculty Mini-grant selection.
Old Business – The committee completed the review of the Faculty
Development Mini-grant proposals. Following are the winning proposals:
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Dr. Bradford Allen, A Concept Map Probability Model and Structural
Complexity Scoring Methodology
Dr. Iver Duedall, Distance Learning Enrichment
Linda Khan, Updating Information Technology Skills
Dr. Steven Lazarus, Near Real-Time Weather Display, Access, and
Archive
Dr. George Maul, Seashells On-Line
Dr. Richard Tankersley, StatTutor: A Web-based Statistics Tutorial for
SPSS
Dr. Richard Tankersley, Everyone "Contributes": Empowering NonTechnical Users to Update Website Content
Dr. Bill Vroman and Dr. Bob Loomis, Virtual Red Ink
Dr. Kurt Winkelmann, Upgrading Physical Chemistry Software
There was a discussion of possible uses of the remaining funds. Ideas
presented at the meeting were interdepartmental software such as SPSS and
MatLab, plagiarism detection software, and web interface software for database
access. It was recommended that a solicitation of requests be posted to
facforum with a due date of March 31. Dee Dee will draft the message to include
the following: description of request, identify a mechanism for procuring long term
funding, and, preference given to software for inter-department use.
New Business – Celine Lang and Wendy Helmstetter made a presentation on
the Florida Tech Digital Library.
History of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
The Digital Library program is really an Institutional Electronic Publishing
Program, the “archive of the future.” Submissions to the library would be in digital
format. Layered on the document would be meta (cataloging) data. Dr. Norine
Noonan, former VP for research and Graduate Programs, was former POC for
the ETD program. The Library staff are preparing themselves to be in a state of
readiness for launching this project. They envision a digital library that would
also contain all faculty scholarly published material. Access would be through
searchable databases.
State of the ETD Program
The program has grown into the National Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations (NDL of TD). There are 144 universities participating, with 50 – 60
having active projects. Virginia Tech is still one of the leaders
http://etd.vt.edu/background/.
Library at Florida Tech
Hardware, software and labor resources are required for implementation. Issues
to be addressed include: must be built to international standards, searchable
through local on-line catalogs and varied search engines, and shelf life of
electronic media. There are 22 Doctoral programs and 58 Master’s programs at
Florida Tech. The budget for 1997-98 to get in the game was $65,000.
Next Meeting: The next ACITC meeting is scheduled for April 21, in the School
of Aero.
Submitted by: Dee Dee Pannell, Recorder
ACITC Report from IT
March 17, 2003
Web Services and the Web Advisory Board – New web postings include: Search bar
on the Home Page, 2003-04 University Catalog cover updated, and new images for
Current Students, Prospective Students and Visitors pages. The committee is reviewing
the benefits of changing its committee structure and expanding the news and events
options on the Home Page.
The Applied Computing Center – The Center continues to provide video and audio
project support. Recently staff produced six video and audio clips for a College of
Engineering presentation to a group of thirty student recruitment counselors from across
the country. Original background music was composed to ensure there were no
copyright violations.
Staff recently provided support to the Biology department by producing video and
multimedia CDs to use with grant applications. They also produced nine sets of CDs
with digital media for a $124K grant application by Dr. Shenker.
Resources have been increased with the addition of 4 MAC G3s and two scanners. The
equipment has been set up to enhance digital production services for students. Two
student assistants are working on projects for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards
competition. They are entering the video and still composition categories.
System Services - The E-mail etiquette document has been reviewed by ACITC and
ADITC. The document has now been posted and is available for reading in the footer of
each fitforum and facforum message.
Three hundred ninety four accounts were deleted in the Spring email account cleanup.
Scanning – A new scan form definition has been created to allow scanning 2 sided, 200
question forms. Faculty and staff are reminded to check with Judy Lipofsky regarding
scanning projects if there is any question regarding currency of scanning forms.
Services summary for February: Web Consults - 65, Other Consults - 89