Pat Lundeen summarized activity over the last 4 weeks on EC topics. The software is being installed this month, and then the State Library will work with individual agencies to add metatags to existing Web pages. Once metatags are in place, the search software will be run against the Web pages and indexing them. It will take more than two years to work through all state agencies. Pilot projects are going well.
Application programming is underway.
EC Team is working with Oracle to design transaction database and single payment system for both pilots. The group spent the rest of the meeting discussing the issues of funding e-commerce and how the merchant fees are charged to agencies. There were many questions and the discussion will continue next meeting.