[wp-edu] Implementing Wordpress in Universities

[Mark Styles]

Most uses of WordPress don't require that level of record keeping.
However everything published on a WordPress blog is available through
RSS feeds, and any document management software that doesn't accept RSS
feeds would be severely lacking.

If and when any of our WordPress blogs require formal archiving in our
document management software we'll just do it using RSS.


On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:25:07PM +0900, John BLAHUSIAK wrote:
> I am surprised to hear that Wordpress would be implemented in Universities.  In the UK and Australia and I suspect other jurisdictions the record keeping requirements on Universities are onerous -- primarily as a result of direct and indirect legislative requirements (for instance, Records FOI, Privacy acts etc).
> 
> I can how Wordpress and associated tools would be of use in relation to facilitating conversations across Universites.  But as far as I can gather there is not a record keeping module for Wordpress -- to allow easy porting into common electronic document management software.
> 
> Essentially every time a user hit publish or comment they would be either creating a new record or a new version of an existing record.  Without a link to University electronic document management systems institutional websites would seem crazy brave.
> 
> John Blahusiak
> Policy and Project Officer, Governance Services
> Governance and Planning Services, Edith Cowan University

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Mark 
http://www.lambic.co.uk

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