Progress on ADEC Technical Initiatives
ADEC E
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Store
http://estore.adec.edu
ADEC E
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Store
Opened in April 2004
Implemented using open source
osCommerce
e
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commerce platform (http://www.oscommerce.com)
All credit card and private information secured by
high
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grade AES
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256 SSL encryption by
Verisign
Payments accepted using via Visa, MasterCard,
American Express, Discover, check and purchase order
Showcases products, courses, workshops, conferences
and other items produced by ADEC member
institutions
A Few Numbers
Since opening in April 2004:
1,000,000+ visits
750+ customer accounts established
800+ orders placed
1,300+ items sold
$65,000+ in revenue for ADEC members
E
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Store Offerings
Currently offering 100+ products from 10 ADEC
member institutions
Offerings include videos (VHS and DVD), online
courses, computer software (available via CD
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ROM
and immediate download), conferences and
workshops
95% of products on the site can be purchased directly
from the E
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Store secure server
Items from multiple institutions may be included in a
single shopping cart for purchase
How to Participate
Selling products and services via the ADEC E
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Store is a
benefit of your ADEC membership
Three ways to participate:
1.
Advertise your products and services on the E
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Store
website and let ADEC process your payments
2.
Advertise your products and services on the E
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Store
and link to a purchase page on your own online store
website
3.
Post a banner ad on the E
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Store website
ADEC Processes Payment
Customer adds your products and services to their E
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Store shopping cart
Customer checks out and completes credit card, check
or purchase order payment via secure on
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line
transaction
E
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Store notifies you that the product or service has
been purchased and should be shipped (if
appropriate)
Once every month, you receive a check for the gross
revenues from your product/service sales
Link to Your Online Store
Customer learns about your product/service from a
page on the E
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Store website
Customer clicks a link at the bottom of the page and is
redirected to a URL you designate on your own online
store website
Banner Ads
Displayed in the upper
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left corner of the E
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Store
website
Server cycles through ads as the customer clicks
through the site
Banner ad links to a URL of your choice
Banner Ads, Continued
Currently running four banner ads on the site
Since initially posted, ads have received an average of:
200,000+ views
5,000+ clicks
Ads must be 480 x 50 pixels in JPG, PNG or GIF format
(animated GIFs are OK)
Future Developments
Non
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English product pages, products and services
Acceptance of PayPal for payments
Downloadable e
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documents and media products
Pay
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per
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view , digital “tokens” for one
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time or
unlimited access to streamed content
Increased participation by ADEC member institutions
ADEC Website/CMS
Staff
ADEC
Steven Conn, ADEC project lead
Chris
Klosowski
(REU fellow from Northern Michigan
University), HTML author and graphic designer
Louisiana State University
Fred Piazza, LSU project lead
Sam
Razzi
, software developer
Sandy
Fiser
, graphic designer
February Meeting
Steven Conn and Chris
Klosowski
met with Janet
Poley
and ADEC staff in Lincoln
Re
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arranged the menu structure to move more
frequently accessed items to the top
Re
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designed and simplified the home page
Made final decisions
vis
a
vis
content areas that were not
addressed in 2006 meetings at LSU
Demonstrated using the CMS for ADEC staff and
conducted a basic training session
Left to Do
Programming
Implement site search
Implement RSS feeds
Content
ADEC
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specific metadata
HTML authoring
Management
Move server to hosting center at UNL IANR
Live in May 2007
E
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Answers
http://e
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answers.adec.edu
E
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Answers
“Google” for ADEC member sites
Focused on content that answers questions for a broad,
public audience
Initially implemented and hosted by the University of
Florida
Assumed by ADEC in November 2004
Implemented using
ht:Dig
search engine
(
http://www.htdig.org
)
A Few Numbers
Currently crawling 400,000+ documents at 50+ ADEC
member sites
Averaged 40,000+ searches per year in 2005 and 2006
Has already performed 30,000+ searches in 2007 as of
April 27
0
50000
100000
2005
2006
2007*
E
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Answers Searches
Searches
Future Developments
Move to the
Nutch
search engine
(
http://www.nutch.org
)
Higher
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performance search engine
Implemented in Java (not Perl)
“Show me more like this one”
Clustering and taxonomy support
ADECnet
Currently have 38 self
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funded
ADECnet
sites
2/3 still have “Gen 1” Tachyon hardware which is now
officially “unsupported”
In 2006
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7, 6 sites have upgraded to “Gen 2” equipment
(cost approx. $2,500)
Will be offering sites “
EverCare
” maintenance for
$55/month, will cover equipment replacement (parts
and labor) after 60 days
Are in discussions with Hughes Network Services, LLC
as a possible alternative vendor
Questions
?
Contact Steven R. Conn, ADEC CTO
703
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861
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5223
steven.conn@adec.edu
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