OFIS Notes from 4 November, 2009

Past Tasks

• Tamir: ct'd bibtex
• Daniel: "what do I need to fill in" info -> sent OfisCSOutputRequirements

Daniel:

• Questions from Tamir:
  • expertise keywords: is the limit of 10 entirely because of the display? (stored in text field, comma-delimited). Because we have faculty currently with 15 keywords.
  • "interests" and "experience" text areas: add to faculty_member as new fields?
  • join date: does this go into employment/history.php? Any thoughts about the fact that we don't have the full required information? (from the research book, we have their current title, and their join date. Don't have their title as of join date.)
  • Education: academic_background/academic_background.php ?
    • however, we don't have all of the required information: country, date graduated, field.

• Question for Marlon:
  • CS profs (eg., john beaty, frank tompa, and byron becker) lack dept rch kwds tab in expertise.php.
  • bulk imports: do the records typically have a unique key, static during imports, so that re-uploads will replace the existing data?

• spoke with Frank Tompa on course evaluation data; work in progress.
  • looks like we need to handle cross-listed courses intelligently; and for courses changing names.
  • hoping that we get a unique ID that will stay fixed if the course changes names.

Upcoming Tasks:

• Tamir: ct'd bibtex, ct'd research-book import
• Daniel: research-book work, course evaluation work.

-- DanielAllen - 02 Dec 2009