Bailiwick was designed to provide University of Iowa faculty, staff and graduate students with web space where they can focus on a particular area of scholarly interest . Bailiwick provides a home to academic web sites that are experimental in nature, provide comprehensive and in-depth resources or take on a narrow, highly specialized topic. It might serve as a home for artistic expression and collaboration between artists working in Iowa and other countries, or as a showcase for digitally-produced art that incorporates interactivity meant to be viewed on a monitor screen. Bells and whistles are not required. Bailiwick may also serve as the host for simple, but narrowly-focused pages of links to resources or as a way to deliver specialized bibliographies , or reproductions of rare documents.
Content providers retain editorial control and freedom.
They have to ability to define their topic of interest, identify the audience and design a customized website. Each Bailiwick is initially limited to 5 MB of space with the option to petition for more. Authors may design the site on their own, or take advantage of the facilities, resources and staff expertise in the Information Arcade and in the Hardin Library's Information Commons. University Libraries, University of Iowa. The University of Iowa.