Website Auditing

The ruling principles governing website management are sustainability and accountability. In common with university policy, there is an assumption that site administrators are self-governing. However, faculty-wide audits will take place from time to time that could result in pages or sites on Faculty servers being taken down.

Sustainability

Methods for determining site or page sustainability are:

1. Link checking

• The Med Web CMS facilitates link-checking reports. It is the responsibility of the website administrator to ensure hypertext links are active.

2. Currency

• Pages with obviously out-of-date content.
• Pages that exceed their update reminder timespans without redress.

3. No active site administration

• Sites that have administrators and page editors who are no longer working with the Faculty.
• Presentation contrary to the Faculty Style Guide
• Site and page management that is contrary to UNSW Website Policy and associated standards and guidelines

Website Authority and Accountability

A chain of responsibility exits that leads in stages to the Dean of Medicine. All pages routinely contain an "authorised by" entry in the footer that will generally nominate an organisational grouping or head (by position title). In the first instance, the site or page administrator may be contacted directly about questionable content or administration practices. The authorising Head follows as the first point of escalation in such cases. The chain of responsibility for websites is -