Blog Policies
About This Page
This page provides a summary of the policies relating to the blog.
Policies For This Blog
- The contents of the blog will primarily address issues related to the Web, including Web standards, innovative Web developments and best practices in providing Web services.
- The blog will also provide a test bed for experiments and for testing new services and provide access to discussions about the experiment.
- The blog will provide an opportunity for me to ‘think out loud“: i.e. describe speculative ideas, thoughts which may occur to me, etc. which may be of interest to others or for which I would welcome feedback.
- The blog will seek to both disseminate information and encourage discussion and debate.
- The target audience includes Web authors, developers, designers and policy maker and the wider digital library and Web research community, in particular those in the UK higher and further education communities and cultural heritage sectors, together with key players in the international community.
- A set of procedures will be published which will aim to ensure that the blog implements these policies and that the blog is widely accessible, functional and interoperable.
- The writing style, grammar and design of links will seek to make the blog readable.
- Minor changes to blog postings and comments may be made to fix errors.
- Comments which are felt to be spam or are inappropriate will be deleted.
- In exceptional circumstances, postings and comments may be deleted.
Quality Assurance For This Blog
The following quality assurance processed will be deployed:
- A spell-checker will be used prior to publishing a post.
- Periodic link-checks will be carried out to ensure that links from this blog are functional.
- Feedback on posts will be encouraged.
- An infrastructure for evaluation of the blog will be provided.
Changes To The Policies
Also note that:
- The scope, policies, target audiences and procedures may be subject to change in light of experiences, resource implications or changes in external factors.
Change Control
This page was first published on 30 January 2007.
20 March 2007 at 8:04 am
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31 May 2007 at 9:07 pm
Hello,
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Best,
Courtney Schultz
IMO.im
28 February 2008 at 8:10 am
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