Information management

From The Collaboratory

Staff Services
The field of Information Management
Members
Avery deGruchy (Team Leader)
Advisors
Scott Weaver

Summary

The Information Management Team researches, implements and improves upon new and existing technologies to assist and serve the needs of projects in the Collaboratory as well as the Collaboratory as a whole.

News

• The IM Team meets at 7:00pm in Frey 150 on Monday nights (after the general Collaboratory meeting at 6:00pm (chapel credit) in Frey 110, and the Staff meeting at 6:45pm in Frey 150)

Core Services

1. Server
   • The Collaboratory has two servers
     • A virtual server through ITS which hosts The Collaboratory Portal, Collaboratory databases, attendance application, and this wiki!
     • Collab-Main which serves as a file server and sandbox for testing
   • If any of these services are unavailable, please contact us at CollabIM@messiah.edu so we can fix it
2. Achievement Tracking (MAP)
   • The Member Achievement Portfolio (MAP) application was created to track achievement and progress of teams and projects
   • MAP is located at http://www.thecollaboratoryonline.org/map
3. Civi Contact Database
   • The Collaboratory contact database is used to track information on members, partners, and contacts
   • The database login is on our website
4. File Server
   • A central location for Collaboratory files is Collab-Main
5. Wiki
   • The Collaboratory has this wiki to document all of our work
6. Training
   • The IM team offers training for all Collaboratory technology
7. Website
   • The Collaboratory website, developed by Messiah College's Marketing and Public Relations, is up at http://www.messiah.edu/collaboratory (or http://www.thecollaboratoryonline.org)
   • Messiah College Marketing and Public Relations designed a new website geared toward our external audiences (e.g. clients, donors, prospective members), which is hosted on Messiah's servers

Resources

MAP

To learn how to take attendance with MAP, check out Using MAP

Database

Using the Collaboratory database

Server

Learn about our production server through ITS, Collab

Learn about our server, Collab-Main

Wiki

For information on using the wiki, see the Help page

Cumulus

Learn about Cumulus

Novell

Instructions on how to add appointments and proxies using Messiah's email

Equipment

• To check out equipment, see the Collaboratory Manager (Tony Caito) in Frey 353
• Current list of the Collaboratory's equipment can be downloaded here!
• Check the Equipment Checkout Calendar for availability
• Information on how to use equipment
  • Using Collaboratory Laptops
  • Using Collaboratory Cell Phones

Checkout policies and forms

• Camcorder
• Cell Phone
• Digital Camera
• Digital Recorder
• External DVD Player
• External HDD
• External Media HDD
• Headset
• Laptop
• Microphone
• Netbook
• PDA
• Projector
• Web Cam

Accounts

Although the Information Management team is responsible for maintaining user accounts for the wiki and the database, group and team leaders should request accounts for new members through the Manager, Rodney Green (rgreen@messiah.edu), or his student work study (CollabAdmin@messiah.edu)

Questions

• Although we are able to answer your questions, please try to find answers to general questions on the wiki
• For requesting technology training and other questions, please contact the Collaboratory IM Team at CollabIM@messiah.edu

Internal pages of Information management

For more information about this template, please read Help:Staff team article and Help:Template.