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Information Systems

Learn about ACM Information Systems Support & Development Services, covering online systems, web hosting, mailing lists, and digital library. Details on IT headquarters and staffed facilities provided.

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Information Systems

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  1. Information Systems SIG Leader Orientation Friday, August 12, 2005

  2. Computer Room Information Systems ACM 1515 Broadway New York, NY 10036

  3. Information Systems Headquarters Staff 24 x 7 Monitoring & Support

  4. Information Systems Headquarters Staff 24 x 7 Monitoring & Support

  5. Information Systems • Datacenter Move (MCI Premium Data Center) • 24x7 staffed facility • Monitoring • Significant upgrade in infrastructure

  6. Information Systems • 24x7 staffed facility • Monitoring • Significant upgrade in infrastructure

  7. Information Systems Systems Support, Development and Services • Headquarters Business Systems • LAN & Desktop Support • Membership, Subscription System • Financial System • Conference Management System • Conference Credit Card Processing

  8. Information Systems Systems Support, Development and Services • Online Systems • www.acm.org • Digital Library • Guide to Computing Literature • Professional Development Centre • Career Resource Center • ACM/SIG Join and Renewal Forms • Financial Management Reporting

  9. Information Systems Systems Support, Development and Services • Online Systems (cont.) • Conference Calendar • Local Activities Calendar • Call for Papers Calendar • Spam and Virus Filtering (Postini) • Chapters Administrative Interface

  10. Information Systems Systems Support, Development and Services • Online Services • Domain Name Service (DNS) • Centralized Domain registration and management • E-Mail Forwarding • Mailing Lists • Virtual Business Card / URL Forwarding • Web Hosting

  11. Information Systems Systems Support, Development and Services • Online Services (cont.) • Wiki (MoinMoin) • Blog (Moveable Type) • Search Engine (Verity K2) • Website Statistics (IBM SurfAid) • Opinion Polls • TIP Service • CGI-based Membership Authorization • Mailing Labels • Web-based access to membership information

  12. Information Systems Web Hosting • Virtual Hosting (signame.org) • http://www.acm.org/signame redirects to http://www.signame.org e.g., http://www.acm.org/sigmod redirects to http://www.sigmod.org • MySQL, PHP, JSP • Request an accounthttp://www.acm.org/infodir/services/server_accounts.html

  13. Information Systems Redesign of ACM Website • Overall acm.org website redesign • Branding effort • Usability study • Graphic design • Style guide and templates • Content Management System • Plone: User-friendly, open source

  14. http://portal.acm.org/dl Information Systems Digital Library • A searchable and browsable collection of all • articles ever published by ACM. • Electronic Data Feeds • Value added services include: • Advanced Search • Sub-Collection Searches • (within a particular SIG) • Upcoming Conferences • Binders / User Agents • Reviews

  15. http://portal.acm.org/dl Information Systems Digital Library • Value added services (cont.) • Table of Contents Service • Forward and Reverse references • Exportable formats • Seach results in XML • Links to ACM Books Program • Links to online book sellers

  16. Information Systems Digital Library • Shortcut URLs • SIGs • e.g., http://portal.acm.org/sigmod • Newsletters • e.g.,http://portal.acm.org/sigmod/newsletter • http://portal.acm.org/sigmod/newsletter/current • http://portal.acm.org/sigmod/newsletter/archive • Proceedings • e.g.,http://portal.acm.org/proceedings/kdd • http://portal.acm.org/proceedings/kdd/current • http://portal.acm.org/proceedings/kdd/archive

  17. Information Systems Statistical Reporting IBM SurfAid • DL/Publication reporting • COUNTER compliant • Overall website reporting • Web-based reporting tool

  18. Information Systems Mailing Lists • SIG Member Lists: • Members are automatically placed on these lists and sent a welcome message. • signame-members@acm.orge.g., sigmobile-members@acm.org • Request a List: • http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/request.html • E-Mail List Management • Open / Closed Lists • Moderated / Edited • Archived to a web interface • Many more features: • http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8e/owner/owner.html

  19. Information Systems Mailing Lists - Chapters • Chapter Members’ Lists: • Chapter Members are automatically placed on their chapter list • chaptername-members@acm.org e.g., sigchi-spain-members@acm.org • Chapter Officers’ Lists: • Chapter Officers are automatically placed on their chapter list • chaptername-officers@acm.orge.g., sigchi-spain-officers@acm.org • Chapter Leaders’ List: • All Chapter Officers are automatically added to the distribution list, chapter-leaders@acm.org.

  20. Information Systems Email Forwarding • Permanent Email Address • yourname@acm.org • Point your forwarding address to your current email address, change this as often as you want. • 150,000+ deliveries / day • https://campus.acm.org/public/clientfunctions/acmorg.cfm

  21. Information Systems Spam and Virus Filtering • Member configurable Spam and Virus filtering • Service levels: • Tag-and-forward • Quarantine • Quarantine spam, delete virus mail • Filters can be turned on or off individually • Members can be notified of quarantined messages • 90,000+ spam / virus messages blocked • https://spam.acm.org

  22. Information Systems Virtual Business Card / URL Forwarding • Permanent, personalized URL • http://member.acm.org/~yourname • You tailor the information displayed • Your ACM affiliation is shown • You can enter an active link to your • home page • Turn on redirection and the page will • be automatically redirected to the URL • you enter http://member.acm.org/~graves

  23. Information Systems Search Capability • Verity K2 Enterprise Search Engine • Powerful Web-Site Search. • Limited by Domain or Base URL. • HTML plug-in can be placed on any web page to create a custom search tool. Example from CHI 2004 http://www.acm.org/search

  24. Information Systems Information Systems August 12, 2005

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