Minutes, ITANA Conference Call
September 7, 2007
**Attendees**
Jim Phelps, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair)
Paul Hill, MIT
Chris Phillips, University of Maryland-Baltimore
Ron Thielen, University of Chicago
Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jon Giltner, University of Colorado
Hébert Díaz-Flores, University of California-Berkeley
Steve Mullins, University of Alaska
Sue Sharpton University of Alaska
Steve Olshansky, Internet2
Dean Woodbeck, Internet2 (scribe)
**Agenda, September 7, 2007**
0) Roll Call. Agenda Bash.
# Accept minutes of last call
- Enterprise Information Management Survey (Hebert)
- Report out of Architecture Tool presentation (Dave P)
- St. Louis University's Pillars and Value Chain Documents - see Value Chain and Pillars (Jim H)
- Re-structuring of the wiki (Jim P)
- CIO Survey on Enterprise Architecture (Jim P)
- Content Management System discussion
Items on the shelf: - Mellon ESB Assessment - goal? is there date on this? Mark get Chas on the call
- Mellon New Initiative: Framework for scholarly studies tools
- (99) Next steps, next call
Action Items**
[AI] Jim Phelps will place the Educause CIO survey on the web before the next call.
[AI] Hébert Díaz-Flores will report on the Kuali Student Services system on the next call.
**EA Survey**
Jim talked with Richard Katz at Educause about the idea of adding an enterprise architecture section to the ECAR core data survey. ECAR is open to discussion, but Katz was not optimistic. Institutions seem to pay a lot of attention to the ECAR survey; sometimes to the exclusion of other surveys they receive. Jim will continue to pursue discussions with ECAR.
The latest draft of the Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) capability and maturity survey is on the ITANA wiki:
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/itana/2007/08/28/Enterprise+Information+Management+Capbility+Survey
Hébert invites comments, either via email or on the wiki. He will make some refinements and, in two weeks, use the survey with internal groups at Berkeley. He will report the results to ITANA in about a month.
**Wiki Resturcture**
Jim has reorganized the wiki, adding navigation buttons at the top. See the wiki at:
https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/itana/
**Educause/CIO Survey**
Jim Phelps has had discussions with the head of the CIO constituent group at Educause about conducting a survey concerning Enterprise Architecture. The survey would ask about the different ways architecture is done, where EA reports and other facets of EA. He is using the enterprise facets document to fashion a survey. The object is to have a survey out to the Educause CIO list and report out at the October Educause meeting in Seattle. [AI] Jim will have a draft survey on the wiki before the next call.
**Content Management Systems**
Jim Phelps said he is waiting for Wisconsin's web CMS document to be made public. He will then post it on the wiki.
Chris Phillips reported that the University of Maryland-Baltimore has operated a web CMS for about three years. Virtually the entire campus uses the CMS on the central servers, managing their own content. He reports that the cultural change - having centralized web hosting and database - is the difficult part. It helps that there is a core web group that provides free help to departments. The next step is to implement a CMS for document management.
**Mellon Items on Agenda**
Jim is waiting for Mellon to make public their plans for the ESB Assessment and their new initiative - framework for scholarly studies tools. Jim contacts Chas DiFatta periodically to determine if the content has been made public. Once the content is public, Jim will invite Chas to an ITANA call for review and discussion.
**Other Topics**
October Educause - there is a constituent session for ITANA at the Educause meeting in Seattle. The session is October 25, 2007, 4:55 - 6:00 p.m.
[AI] Hebert has a briefing next week on the Kuali Student Services system and will report on that system on the next call.
**Next call: September 21, 2:00 pm (EDT)**
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