LBSC 671 - Creating Information Infrastructures
Spring 2014 - Section 0101
Assignment G11 - The Web

Create a Web page that describes your collection. This page MUST be hosted on TerpConnect, and it MUST appear at the URL: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~USERID/671.html where USERID is your TerpConnect userid. When your page is ready, send the professor an email giving your TerpConnect userid and the fact that your page is ready.

In describing your collection, you should consider the guidelines in RDA or DACS (as appropriate), but you need not follow those guidelines strictly. Rather, your goal should be to describe your collection to potential users of your collection, so you should describe the collection in a way that you expect the viewers of your Web page to understand. You would make very different Web pages if your intended viewer is a scholar, a member of the public, or a child. So your first step should be to decide who your page will be designed for. You should then decide what they will need to see, and then finally how it should be laid out and expressed in order to make it useful to them.

Unlike your Wiki, your Web page will be public. If personal or otherwise sensitive information is necessary to describe your collection, you should either obscure that information somehow (e.g., by making up other names) or you should describe some other collection.

Because the pages are public, you may be able to find useful inspiration and examples from the similar assignment done by students in earlier semesters. In Fall 2013, this was assignment G11, and many of the Web pages produced for that assignment are still available.

Your page will be graded for content, style, compliance with HTML standards, and spelling.

You may find the following reference to be useful:

• HTML Code Tutorial