Welcome to the IBIS-PH Community of Practice - Product Management Site

IBIS-PH stands for Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health. This site provides access to all of the IBIS-PH work products. In general, the IBIS-PH Community of Practice consists of any organization or individual who is interested in the dissemination of data and information for public health assessment. Use of this site and/or the content contained within is subject to this disclaimer.

The goal of the IBIS-PH Community is to share ideas, expertise, and information on how to:

  • collect and maintain public health data,
  • analyze the data,
  • disseminate the data to the public using IBIS-PH, and to
  • contribute to the practice of public health informatics generally.

The Product Management portion of the IBIS-PH Community site provides

  • Project Management of the related work product milestones. This is accomplished using the Trac Roadmap engine.
  • Tracking of bugs and tasks using the Trac Ticket engine.
  • Access to all versions of all files associated with the IBIS-PH project is handled by Trac's Browse Source Subversion File Repository interface. NOTE: Use of IBIS-PH software implies agreement to the Internet Software Use Agreement.
  • A WIKI page engine that allows authorized users to define their own custom web pages that will be served up via Trac.

Other IBIS-PH Community of Practice web resources include

  • Detailed System/Application Documentation. This includes how to install and support the applications, developer documentation, and content management user documentation.
  • Discussion Forums. vBulletin is a web based application which allows individuals to share knowledge and ideas like dealing with health data, SAS programming, web development, and IBIS-PH application specific topics.

About IBIS-PH and the Trac Application

This page is part of the IBIS-PH WIKI and is hosted within the "Trac" application.

"trac-admin yourenvdir initenv" created a new Trac environment, containing a default set of wiki pages and some sample data. This newly created environment also contains documentation to help get things started with the IBIS-PH project.

Please use the trac-admin to configure Trac to better fit IBIS-PH, especially in regard to components, versions and milestones.

TracGuide is a good place to start.

Trac Starting Points

For a complete list of the local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.

Special Acknowledgements

  • Gayle P. Clement for graciously allowing us to use her "IBIS flock in flight" photo for the IBIS-PH CoP.
  • Benjamin Goodrich and the Utah Department of Health's IT group for supporting and hosting this site.