Unifying 3,000+ faculty profiles into a searchable, managed platform.
The University of Ottawa replaced a fragmented system of departmental web pages with a single Uniweb deployment covering all faculties.
The Fragmented Reality
Before Uniweb, the university struggled with a classic institutional problem: expertise was invisible. Faculty information was scattered across departmental pages, personal sites, and outdated directories. When someone searched for an expert, they found a patchwork — or nothing at all. IT teams were buried in support tickets just to update publication lists.
The IT Perspective
Director of IT Services discusses the deployment process and the immediate reduction in maintenance overhead.
Empowering Faculty, Gaining Visibility
The solution was not to force a top-down database that faculty resented updating. Instead, Proximify deployed Uniweb as a consumer-grade website builder for the researchers themselves. Because faculty found the tool intuitive and useful for their own career branding, they kept their data updated. This structured data automatically fueled the university's central Expert Directory.
A Researcher's Experience
Professor of Environmental Science shows how she uses Uniweb to maintain her lab website and sync her CCV automatically.
