apostropheTrinity College of Arts & Science’s CMS

apostrophe is an open-source content management system designed for maximum flexibility with a minimal learning curve. The interface is ergonomic, all content-editing is

performed in-context.

A product of P’unk Ave

Research and development from the Trinity web project led to the creation of Apostrophe.

Apostrophe is developed in a php framework called symfony

Duke is first to use and deploy it

Trinity’s challenges before the urban web

plan

Inconsistent design & implementation

Difficult to edit or manage websites

Increased demand for online presence

No standard connection to enterprise data sources across the board

Reduced staff

Expensive maintenance

Our Goals

Consistent design & identity

Easy and fun to use interface

Improve customer service and quality of products

Flexibility to scale in size small, medium, large, XL, XXL websites

Theater Studies (ugrad program only)

Political Science (ugrad, grad)

Romance Studies (ugrad, 4 language programs, 48 grad students)

Economics (undergrad, grad, masters, ph.d programs)

Trinity College (has pulled in about 25 Websites)

Tap into current and future enterprise data resources.

Reduce costs for web services

Build community

Progress

We rapidly developed and migrated over 50 websites in one year

Developed a style-guide that visually connects Trinity College departments & units while showcasing their uniqueness

based on The Grid System

Tapped into Duke and external enterprise data sources

DukeFDS/FDRDuke Event Calendar and BuzzDuke OnDemandDuke NewsDuke List

ExternalYouTube, Vimeo, Vidler, others…BlogsNY TimesOther Higher Ed institutionsDPACMore ….

We have already recouped the cost of the initial investment

All future website deployment will reap significant savings for either Trinity or the

Duke community

Growing .edu Community

University of PennWharton School of Business

University of DelawareFranklin & Marshall

University of the Arts, PhiladelphiaMoore School of Design

Duke Alumnus, Pratt 09 built (http://sunrunhome.com)

Features

User feedback

Easy to learn, Flexible to change, Fun to use

“it has been a long time since you showed Helen and me how to use the new web

system, but I wanted to tell you how easy and enjoyable it is to use.  I had been dreading the process of making the

changeover, but the new program is easy, fun, and attractive.”

Stephanie Sieburth, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Romance Studies

“For the old website, I had all these little sticky notes on the front of my computer, reminding me how to do things: add a link with html, or size an image properly. I was dreading having to re-learn all that, …With the new website I’ve thrown out all the old sticky notes and have not needed any new

ones.”

Rebecca Gibson, Administrator, Department of English

Roadmap

Respond to user feedback, site analytics, institutional goals

Apostrophe, Media and Files Management, FDS interface, Handbooks, Group Permissions, FormBuilder, Tubes Plugin

Learn more..

web@trinity.duke.eduContact Trinity Technology Services for more information about apostrophe at Duke as well as signing up to try out our apostrophe in a virtual sandbox environment…

http://apostrophenowYou can learn more about the open source plugins and take a free online demo of the CMS as well as learn more about the nuts and bolts of the product.

Questions