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Intranet Publishing Guidelines: Additional Points
Reinventing the Wheel
Before building Web pages within a new site the data owner should explore the Intranet to identify sites which might have already invented the wheel. Developers are also encouraged, when creating processes and procedures, to consider whether to generalize them for use in other situations at EPA in the future.
Usage Monitoring
Data owners should review and analyze the usage reports generated by the server for their documents and collections, and use this information to improve their services and information access.
Continuous Improvement
Data owners should take advantage of the "live" nature of Web services and the steady stream of technical enhancements by continuously improving their services. While frivolous and arbitrary changes are distracting to users, improvements to services based on user feedback, new ideas for organization, new HTML features, or newly available functionality should keep services fresh and provide customers additional functionality and reflect on the organization's commitment and expertise.
Copyrights and Multimedia Documents
A copyright is the "rights" of an author or publisher to the "copy" (text of an article) which that author or publisher produced. This has come to mean the right of intellectual property, whereby authors obtain, for a limited time, certain exclusive rights to their work. Copyrights can apply not only to text, but to graphics, audio or video materials, other electronic formats, and even ideas.
Copyright considerations are dealt with on the Copyright Issues page of the Web Guide.