Web Page Responsibilities

[Latest revisions 16 May, 2008]

Pages on this web site are of three kinds:

A. Pages with official ARARA information, for whose content the Board gives approval
B. Pages with information relating to committees, for whose content committee
     chairpersons give approval
C. Pages with more general information, links etc. which the Web Committee
     normally approves, sometimes in consultation with one or more Committees,
     but which ultimately may come from any source, ARARA members or
     non-members or the world wide web in general.

A. Pages whose content may be changed only with approval from the ARARA President:
     The Home Page
     The Contacts Page ("Contacting Boards and Committees") and its dependencies*
          [see "exceptions" below; see footnote defining "dependencies"]
     The Standing Documents page and its dependencies*
     The Membership page and its dependencies*
  ??The Volunteer page [not all of its dependencies*; or reassign elsewhere?
     The page "Who We Are" or "Who We Are and What We Do" [not all dependencies*]
     The Disclaimer page and its dependencies* if any
     The Press Releases page and its dependencies*
     The Spanish page and its dependencies*
     The Annual Conference page and its dependencies*
     Any other pages which the Board may designate, or where the Board may choose to
          override another authority if that is absolutely necessary. Because of the value
          of delegation of authority, the presumption should be against Board overrides.
Exceptions, which are not normally assigned to the Board:
     Committee agenda pages are to be changed only with approval from committee
           chairpersons. See the list of committees below.
     Specific portions of the Annual Conference Information may be changed also with
           approval of the chairs of these committees:
           Program Committee; Field Trips Committee; others?

B. Pages whose content may be changed only with approval by the relevant committees,
     by current chairpersons of the named committees
     or by persons designated by those committees:
     Awards Committee
          Awards and Awards Index pages and their dependencies*
          Awards Committee Agenda page and its dependencies*
     Conservation and Preservation Committee
          Management and Protection page and its dependencies*
          Action Alerts & Success Stories page and its dependencies*
               [Amendment passed 15 July 2008 that chairs of Conservation and Web
                committees work out general guidelines (from Conservation) and
                means of reacting flexibility and quickly to such items which may be urgent,
                to be submitted to the two committees for discussion and approval.]
          Well Managed Sites page and its dependencies*
               (same as "Best Sites to Visit" page)
               (Exception: Picture Galleries page is the responsibility of the Web Committee)
          Conservation and Preservation Committee Agenda page and its dependencies*
     Education Committee
          For Kids page and its dependencies* (same as "For Kids, Teens and Teachers")
          Education Committee Agenda page and its dependencies*
     Nominations Committee
          Nominations Committee Agenda page and its dependencies*
     Public Relations Committee
          Public Relations Committee Agenda page and its dependencies*
     Publications Committee
          Publications by ARARA (upper part of the Publications page) and its dependencies
          Publications Committee Agenda page and its dependencies*

C. Pages for which the Web Committee and its chair bear primary responsibility:
     All general information pages not having an official status and
          not specifically assigned to the Board or to another committee in B. above.
          This includes but is not limited to:
     Member-Run Organizations page and its dependencies*
     Who Made Rock Art, When and Why page and its dependencies*
     Recording and Image Enhancement page and its dependencies*
     Calendar page
     Regular Publications from Other Sources (lower part of the Publications page)
           and its dependencies*
     Picture Galleries page
     Latest Additions page
     Links page
     For Young Scholars page
     Statistical Distribution of Members by State page
     Current Research Projects involving Our Members page

*its dependencies, dependent -- these refer to pages which have at the beginning of their text a line in which the named head page is hierarchically higher than (marked with the "greater-than" sign ">" ) the page on which the line appears. So this page you are on now is shown in the line
Home > Contacting Board & Committees > Web Page Responsibilities
to be a dependency of (be dependent on) the page "Contacting Board & Committees", which on the home page appears as the link labeled "Contacts". Each page on this site has only one such line defining its dependency tree, so its dependency relation is unambiguous.