Starting a new WWW service
This document gives a short description which decisions have to be made before a new WWWW service within the Science Faculty can be started.
Contact Communications
C&CZ is not the communications department, officially all communication and
therefore websites should be provided and endorsed by the communication
department.
However, sometimes a website is actually an application with a web interface and this can usually not be provided via the official communication website.
Purpose
We need to know if the web service is intended for the entire faculty. In this case it is basically a feature request for C&CZ and we must decide if we want to add it to our list of services.
Research websites, Personal websites, experiments, etc. have a smaller scope and usually the site must be managed by yourself, including security updates and such. We can provide some resources to serve the site to the scope where it is needed.
A name for the service
Preferably a site with a url like https://<somesite>.science.ru.nl is used, but if necessary, we can request an additional domain under whatever toplevel you need. Be aware that this is most likely against the official policy regarding websites.
Who is (are) the contact(s) for the website
To be able to contact the maintainer(s) of the website in case of problems we need at least one mail address. Also we would like to know until what time the site will be required (of course this may be extended when necessary). But otherwise we have no way of knowing when to clean it up.
Requesting a site
Send an e-mail to us with your wishes and we will consider how we can best help you.