Guidelines for Homepages of Regional Projects and Activities
BACKGROUND:
In July 1995, the Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
agreed to cease paper publication of its Southern Cooperative Series Bulletins
and operational documents and publish them electronically on the World Wide Web.
Consistent with this intent to move toward a paperless management system, these
guidelines are presented to serve for establishment of home pages for multistate
research projects, SCC's, and SERA's in the Southern region.
GOAL:
To have an easily accessible system and common repository for information such
as membership lists, abbreviated history, project objectives, minutes, annual
reports, and publications associated with multistate research projects, SCC's
and SERA's.
GUIDELINES:
- Each administrative advisor should encourage development of a home page
by the multistate research project, SCC, and SERA with which he or she serves.
- The page should be based at the location of the person who maintains the home page or the
administrative advisor, linked to the SAAESD page, and should be kept current.
- Pages should be concise and contain the following information:
- Title and number of multistate research project, SCC, or SERA.
- Project/group objectives.
- Abbreviated history, background, and justification. (1-3 paragraphs).
- Membership list including telephone, fax, and e-mail addresses, and identification of
officers and experiment station, extension, and CSREES advisors.
- Announcements of meeting dates and sites.
- Significant changes and accomplishments listed in bullet format.
- Minutes of meetings. (In initial page construction, 5 years of minutes should be included if available.)
- Publications related to the multistate research project, SCC, or SERA
should be listed and linked to the page.
- The SAAESD header should be included at the top of the page to identify the effort as a
southern region activity.
- A link back to the SAAESD homepage should be provided to create
a "loop" between SAAESD and project homepages.
- Indication of last update and who is responsible for the page should be included.
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS:
- The administrative advisor should encourage all page-related activity to
be developed by the secretary, other officer, or appointed member of the multistate
research project, SCC, or SERA and to be transmitted electronically to the
base location for posting on the web.
- Several URL sites for exchange groups and multistate projects are already posted on the SAAESD
page (see link to complete list below).
- Development of a list serve which provides the opportunity for a discussion group is encouraged.
NOTEWORTHY:
- For an unspecified time, project homepages will be optional but in the future will become mandatory.
- CSREES/Partnerships will accept notification of posting of annual meeting minutes and annual reports on project homepage to satisfy the
required "transmittal" of such to CSREES.
Guidelines adopted by Southern Directors 8/8/98.
Resources:
Template for creating homepage
List of Multistate Projects and Activities
Links to Existing Project/Activity Homepages
SAAESD Homepage
ASRED Homepage
Maintained by: Donna Pearce,
donna_pearce@ncsu.edu
