Saturday, November 04, 2006

Displaying the Faculty Structure

We added a couple of pages to FOLD last week as part of our effort to represent the structure of the Faculty. FOLD holds a description of the purpose, membership and interrelationships of all groups in the Faculty. The relationships are complex and not easy to understand by looking at one group at a time.


There are two views of the Faculty
  • the staff structure (subgroup relationship between staff groups)
  • the committee structure t(reporting relationships between committes)
Both graphs are clickable, leading to a photo gallery of group members, from where you can navigate to the group information.

Technical Note.
These graphs are dynamically generated from the descriptions of groups held in FOLD. The graph layout uses the AT& T program 'dot', part of the Graphviz suite. The graphs are generated as GIFs with client-side maps generated to provide the linking.

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