UITS editorial style guide: Organizational naming conventions

• Campuses
• Office of the Vice President for Information Technology (OVPIT) units and UITS divisions
• UITS media outlets
• Branding
• Terms
• OVPIT and UITS-affiliated centers
• Buildings
• Naming new systems

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Campuses

Refer to Indiana University (IU) campuses as follows:

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology (OVPIT) units and UITS divisions

To correctly refer to OVPIT units and UITS divisions, see Organizational structure.

UITS media outlets

• IT.IU: IT@IU website
• IT News: UITS news website
• The Monitor: UITS eNewsletter
• Social media: Facebook (iu.uits), Twitter (@iu_uits), Instagram (iu_uits), YouTube (uitsatiu)

Branding

• UITS units should have "UITS" branding (for example, UITS IT Training).
• UITS Research Technologies (RT) is a cyberinfrastructure and service center affiliated with the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.

Terms

• AskIU: General information Q&A service provided by the IU Contact Center
• EDUCAUSE: Nonprofit association that seeks "to advance higher education through the use of information technology"
• Empowering People (EP): IU's strategic plan for IT (published 2009)
• IU Login: Grants access to multiple IU password-protected web systems (often referred to as single sign-on or SSO)
• IQ-Wall: 24x18 foot wall (10,080 x 4,200 pixels of resolution)
• IT@IU: All units supporting or developing IT at Indiana University
• Principal Investigator (PI): Person with primary responsibility for a research and/or grant-funded project
• SICE: School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
• Science on a Sphere (SoS): Spherical projection system created by NOAA that presents high-resolution video on a suspended globe, with the aim of better representing global and astronomical phenomena

  SoS at the CIB is the world's 97th installation, and the only one in Indiana.

OVPIT and UITS-affiliated centers

• Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, CACR
• Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, CITL (IU Bloomington)
• Center for Teaching and Learning, CTL (IUPUI)
• Data to Insight Center, D2I
• Global Research Network Operations Center at Indiana University, GlobalNOC
• Indiana Center for Network Translational Research, InCNTRE
• Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center, REN-ISAC

Buildings

• Cyberinfrastructure Building, CIB
• Herman B Wells Library (Use full name, and then "Wells Library")
• Indiana Memorial Union, IMU
• Informatics & Communications Technology Complex, ICTC
• Innovation Center, IC
• IU Data Center

Naming new systems

When naming a new system, choose a descriptive and straightforward name, making sure that the name:

• Is easy to say and spell
• Describes the system or product
• Will work as a URL if needed
• Is not CaMeLbAcK spelling
• Doesn't combine multiple words to make a new word (for example, IndiAccessiBook)
• Isn't already in use

It helps to ask users for feedback before making a decision.