Purdue University Information System (Prototype, 1993)
Educational Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Directed by Mary Hopper
Assisted by Rob Tillotson
[I attended Purdue for my entire undergraduate and graduate educational program,
and my over ten years of involvement with the university as a student and employee
culuminated in August 1992 with my direction of a project that resulted in a
prototype university wide information system accessbile over the internet
using a gopher client.]
Content: Contained basic information about all Academic Schools and Departments at Purdue University.
The system included information regarding the following specific categories:
Introduction to Purdue
Facts about Purdue
Schools
People
Information Organizations and Resources
Services (Academic Advising, Counseling etc.)
University Placement
Student Services Information ON-Line
Student Organizations and Services
Admissions Information
Campus Visits
Campus Map
The Community (West Lafayette, IN)
Purpose: Provide Proof of Concept for University Wide Information System
This project was an outgrowth of prior work on two other information systems
for the schools of Engineering (ESCAPE) and Education
(EDIS).
These were by far the two largest schools on campus, so it was actually a small job
to create an integrated system which tied together the existing systems and included
the other schools using information obtained by digitizing the text and graphics of
existing printed materials.
This project was actually completed in a very short time during the Spring of 1993.
The original data entry and contstruction were done in HyperCard, and then automated
prcesses developed for earlier projects were used to export and convert the content
into a generic format easily modified with scripts for display in Gopher and the WWW.
Thus, this work resulted in a prototype Purdue University Information System
which was the ancestor which is now available through the world wide web today.
For further technical details of this work, see descriptions of the design and
construction of the earlier Education and Engineering projects on this site.
A demo of the original HyperCard version is also available upon request.
on the web
Text Only Version of Purdue University Home Page (Closest Relative to Prototype)
http://www.purdue.edu/Purdue/textonly/textonly.html
Current Purdue University Home Page
http://www.purdue.edu
© Mary E. Hopper [MEHopper] |
MEHopper@TheWorld.com
[posted 01/01/01 | revised 01/01/01]