OFIS Notes from 20 April, 2010

Past CS tasks

• Daniel: Demo for profs.

Today:

• Daniel: Demo for profs. Very helpful.
  • many votes for NSERC freeform data entry (but don't want to see data auto-uploaded to NSERC website; don't trust interactions of systems). Nobody said they DON'T want NSERC freeform data entry.
  • Math is interested in using it as well.
    • Q: can/should we add a Math staff member to demo for C&O staff and chair? (if so, likely a few others as well).

• • Charlie Clark in Software Enginineering:
    • questions on university privacy policy. "How do we know where grad student data is used? Eg., NSERC restricts usage. It would be sensible to be able to publicly present grad names, degree, and date, if that is allowed." * "There should be a statement like 'Information is released in accordance with University Privacy Policy.'"
  • Therese Biedl in CS:
    • missing grad students under Supervision: shouldn't this report as an error as well?
    • has a very useful body of data on bibtex imports. Found errors.
• Daniel: code comments:
  • awards on webpage: Lai set to reverse chronological order and added "-nnnn" if ending year.
  • contributions on webpage: should also show in reverse chronological order, not entry order?
  • Question for Beth: OK to add end-year to awards globally? Or just for CS/Math?

Upcoming Tasks:

• Daniel will fix CS Research Book code for order of display; and will email Beth/Vu about decision for webpage.
  • look up email to the list: bibtex-using prof, wants to test.
• still to ask:
  • "2234 manuscript pages" - where does that come from? End-page isn't supposed to be a range, is it?
  • logic for page-ranges: holes around "" or 0 for source, n for end

-- DanielAllen - 28 Apr 2010