The YaleStation Project

The YaleStation Project, as was declared when it was founded, is dedicated to the enhancement of Yale University computing and information access online. YaleStation is a "from the ground up" technological exploration into the development of institutional, student-run Web portals. With its roots in the student community, YaleStation can gauge student needs and desires and quickly deliver results.

To members of the Yale community (including students, faculty, staff, and alumni) and to visitors, YaleStation offers customizable portals featuring group calendaring, e-mail lists, weather, among many other resources essential to campus life. To campus groups and organizations, YaleStation offers an array of online information services at no charge.

History

YaleStation was conceived by founder and then-freshman Alexander Clark in September 2000. One month later on October 16, Clark launched YaleStation to the Yale undergraduate body of then-approximately 5,000 students.

In April 2002, YaleStation became an official project and arm of the Yale College Council, providing Yale's student government organization with an established technological presence in the Yale community.

Today, YaleStation maintains servers that answer millions of document requests to tens of thousands of unique visitors per month. Sites are powered by home-grown components (ranging from enterprise emailers to user heuristics) that utilize an array of new technologies developed and administered in-house by Yale students.

Forward-Looking

YaleStation serves as an incubator for student technology on campus, helping to launch enterprise-scale projects for students and staff, including online recruitment, online admissions decisions, streaming TV, simulcast radio, and online media libraries, among countless others. YaleStation offers open-access to the underlying XML feeds and XSL transforms that create its site, and, as the founding member of the Univariant Project, enables developers to build off the YaleStation framework in a cross-language, cross-platform environment and to extend their projects to other schools and networks.

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