The English dept is rewriting is hiring contractors to rewrite its dept site over the summer and wants the HCMC to be able to maintain the site if needbe.

English intends to include the ability to scrape the Calendar site for course listings and allow browser-based editing of limited bits of text in the site. These features we also have and hope to have (respectively) in the new phil site, so we'll be able to compare the two implementations and learn from that.

The HCMC is willing to take on the role of maintaining the site on three conditions:

1) The HCMC needs to have approval on the specifications for any parts of the site that we will be expected to maintain. In particular, we need to know what technology is intended to implement the "spider" and "browser-editing" abilities.

2) The developers must provide full technical documentation on their work. I can provide more details on the kind of documentation (both in the code and as separate files) that we'd expect - it's nothing beyond industry standards, but the long-term well-being of the site will depend on it.

3) The site be hosted on uvic's main web hosting computer. If the site is housed outside of the university, then the HCMC will have to review whether it can commit to maintenance as the costs to the HCMC of working with non-UVic sys-admins are considerably higher than working with UVic sys-admins.