Standing Up Vendor-Provided Web Hosting Services at Florida State University Libraries: A Case Study
CreateFSU is Florida State University Libraries’ branded Reclaim Hosting, Domain of One’s Own web-hosting service. CreateFSU provides current FSU faculty, staff, and some students web domains and over 150 popular open-source content management systems including Wordpress, Drupal, Scalar, and Omeka....
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| Language: | English |
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Code4Lib
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Code4Lib Journal |
| Online Access: | https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/17766 |
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| Summary: | CreateFSU is Florida State University Libraries’ branded Reclaim Hosting, Domain of One’s Own web-hosting service. CreateFSU provides current FSU faculty, staff, and some students web domains and over 150 popular open-source content management systems including Wordpress, Drupal, Scalar, and Omeka. Since the launch of the service in September 2021, the Libraries have negotiated the demands of providing such a service with various administrative stakeholders across campus, expanded the target audience, provided support and refined our workflows and documentation to make the service fit campus needs. Using this service, members of the FSU community showcase the fruits of their research to a broad audience in ways that are highly accessible and engaging. More work needs to be done to promote CreateFSU to the FSU community and identify opportunities to integrate the service into existing research and learning workflows. To expand the service to meet new use cases and ensure its scalability, the Libraries hope to convince campus partners to consider its utility to their missions and contribute funding. This article lays out our experiences in launching and hosting this service over its first two years and proposes steps for future development and growth. |
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| ISSN: | 1940-5758 |