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ICT Seventh Framework Programme (ICT FP7)

Grant Agreement No: 288513

Policy Formulation and Validation through non Moderated Crowdsourcing

D8.2 Project website, blog and twitter channels

Deliverable Form

Project Reference No. ICT FP7 288513

Deliverable No. D8.2

Relevant Workpackage: WP8 Dissemination and Exploitation

Nature: R

Dissemination Level: RE

Document version: Final V1.0

Date: 31/03/2012

Authors: Philippe Claeys, Melissa Pickard (QWENTES), Aggeliki Androutsopoulou, Yannis Charalabidis, Euripidis Loukis (AEGEAN)

Document description: This deliverable presents the website of the NOMAD project, blog and twitter channels.

0528F01_Project website, blog and twitter channels

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Document History

Version Date Author (Partner) Remarks

Draft v0.50 19/02/2012 Philippe Claeys, Melissa

Pickard (QWENTES) Table of Contents


Pickard (QWENTES)

Website Deployment,

Social media accounts creation


Pickard (QWENTES) Final Draft

Draft v0.90 19/03/2012 All partners Internal Review

Final v1.00 31/03/2012 Aggeliki Androutsopoulou,

Yannis Charalabidis, Euripidis Loukis (AEGEAN)

Final Review


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This deliverable, D8.2 Project website blog and twitter channels, presents the functionality of the official website of the NOMAD project. The document describes the infrastructure of the NOMAD website and presents the publicly and partner’s accessible area of the website.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................................................................... 5

LIST OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .............................................................................................................................. 6

1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................ 7

2. WEBSITE INFRASTRUCTURE ...................................................................................................................................... 8

2.1 URL ........................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.2 Website architecture ................................................................................................................................................ 8 2.3 Other issues .............................................................................................................................................................. 8

2.3.1 Hosting ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 2.3.2 Site statistics ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.3.3 Compatibility with Browsers ............................................................................................................................ 8

3. WEBSITE DESCRIPTION .................................................................................................................................................. 10

3.1 Public Access Area .................................................................................................................................................. 10 3.2 Partner Access Area ................................................................................................................................................ 19

3.2.1 NOMAD Partners’ Collaboration Area ............................................................................................................ 21 3.2.2 NOMAD EU Commission Area ........................................................................................................................ 21

3.3 Facebook and Twitter Channels ............................................................................................................................. 21 3.3.1 Facebook Channel .......................................................................................................................................... 22 3.3.2 Twitter Channel .............................................................................................................................................. 24

4. CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................................................................................ 25


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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Snapshot of the NOMAD home page ...................................................................................................................... 11

Figure 2: Snapshot of the “Objectives” page ......................................................................................................................... 12

Figure 3: Snapshot of the “Approach” page ........................................................................................................................... 13

Figure 4: Snapshot of the “Partners” page ............................................................................................................................. 14

Figure 5: Snapshot of the “News” page ................................................................................................................................. 15

Figure 6: Snapshot of the “Events” page ................................................................................................................................ 16

Figure 7: Snapshot of the “Links” page .................................................................................................................................. 18

Figure 8: Snapshot of the “Downloads” page ........................................................................................................................ 19

Figure 9: Snapshot of the NOMAD Wiki ................................................................................................................................. 20

Figure 10: Snapshot of the NOMAD partners’ collaboration area ......................................................................................... 21

Figure 11: Snapshot of the NOMAD EU Commission area .................................................................................................... 21

Figure 12: Follow NOMAD on Facebook ................................................................................................................................ 23

Figure 13: Follow NOMAD on Twitter .................................................................................................................................... 24


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LIST OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

ASP Active Server Pages

EC European Commission

URL Uniform Resource Locator

WP Work Package


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1. INTRODUCTION

The purpose of deliverable D8.2 is to set up the NOMAD website, Facebook and Twitter channels which will serve as a collaboration tool for knowledge, experience and best practice sharing, as well as results consolidation and dissemination support.

The NOMAD website will provide all related information about the NOMAD project, such as scope, objectives, approach, target and results. The website, which will be publicly available, is foreseen to incrementally provide project information and achievements and stimulate contacts with other users. The NOMAD project’s result and news can also be followed through Facebook and Twitter channels.

In Section 2 follows a description of the website infrastructure. More specifically, the website architecture is presented.

Section 3 provides the website description and Facebook and Twitter channels that are set up to widely disseminate the project’s results and news. More specifically, different snapshots of the public website pages are given. Moreover, the features and description of the internal partner area are presented.

Finally, Section 4 concludes this deliverable.


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2. WEBSITE INFRASTRUCTURE

2.1 URL

The NOMAD consortium has acquired the following URL which will be used by Internet users for accessing the NOMAD website.

http://www.nomad-project.eu

2.2 Website architecture

The project’s website will consist of two discrete access controlled areas:

a public area where the public will be able to gather information regarding the project, download the project’s publicly available material (like accepted deliverable, brochures and other informative documents or publications) and to find information about contacting the project’s partners, and

a private area, where only the NOMAD partners will have access in order to deposit various data, to exchange documents, to organize events and for general co-operation.

The underlying platform is DotNetNuke (www.dotnetnuke.com) in version 6.1.1. DotNetNuke is an open source web application framework written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. The application's content management system is extensible and customizable through the use of skins and modules, and it can be used to create, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and web sites.

As of January 2011, the DotNetNuke application has been downloaded over 6 million times and is in its fifth edition. Version 4.0 or later requires ASP.NET Framework v2.0 or later, but earlier versions will run on ASP.NET 1.1. DotNetNuke has a basic core which can be extended using pluggable modules and providers that enable additional functionality; the look and feel of individual sites can be customized using skins.

About a dozen basic modules are included with the core DotNetNuke distribution, and further modules can be downloaded from the DotNetNuke website, including e-commerce systems, photo galleries, blogs, forums, wiki and mailing list options. Additional third party modules are provided by both the open source community and proprietary commercial developers.

2.3 Other issues

2.3.1 Hosting

The whole platform is hosted in ATC premise in Greece. The servers (Windows Server, IIS7, Microsoft SQL Server 2008) used for hosting guarantee the 24/7 operation of the platform, as they are capable of handling high load and operate on a 2 Gbps connection to the Internet.

Backups of the system are taken on a standard daily basis in order for the system to be able to recover in case of a failure.

2.3.2 Site statistics

The statistics regarding the visitors of the website are constantly recorded and stored, using the Google Analytics1 tool kit

so that consortium members can anytime have access to the history logs and be able to extract useful information about the website operation based on those statistics.

2.3.3 Compatibility with Browsers

The website is compatible with the following web browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher

1 www.google.com/analytics

http://www.nomad-project.eu/


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Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or higher

Apple Safari 3.0 or higher

Google Chrome


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3. WEBSITE DESCRIPTION

3.1 Public Access Area

The public area of the NOMAD website consists of the following pages:

Home

Project

o Objectives

o Approach

Partners

News

Events

Links

Downloads

Figure 2 (Snapshot of the NOMAD home page) presents the NOMAD’s vision. Figure 3 (Snapshot of the “Objectives” page) shows the motivation and the objectives of the project. In Figure 4 (Snapshot of the “Approach” page) information about the methodology that will be used in the project is given. Figure 5 (Snapshot of the “Partners” page) presents the project partners. In Figure 6 (Snapshot of the “News” page) the recent news of the project are presented. Figure 7 (Snapshot of the “Events” page) presents the NOMAD calendar. In Figure 8 (Snapshot of the “Links” page) interesting links with other projects are listed so that the users can visit other websites for further information. Finally, in Figure 9 (Snapshot of the “Downloads” page) relevant documentation and resources will be uploaded throughout the course of the project.


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Figure 1: Snapshot of the NOMAD home page


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Figure 2: Snapshot of the “Objectives” page


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Figure 3: Snapshot of the “Approach” page


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Figure 4: Snapshot of the “Partners” page


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Figure 5: Snapshot of the “News” page


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Figure 6: Snapshot of the “Events” page


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Figure 7: Snapshot of the “Links” page


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Figure 8: Snapshot of the “Downloads” page

3.2 Partner Access Area

The internal “Partners Area” of the CROSSOVER project uses Wiki for exchanging information among members of the CROSSOVER consortium and for the EU Commission (see Figure 8). The open source used is DokuWiki

2 which is a

standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files – no database is required.

2 For more information on DokuWiki’s features please visit http://www.dokuwiki.org/features

http://www.dokuwiki.org/features


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Figure 9: Snapshot of the NOMAD Wiki


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3.2.1 NOMAD Partners’ Collaboration Area

NOMAD partners have access to this area as shown in Figure 10 and can “push and pull” information regarding the followings:

Project Information – access to general project information, such as description of work, contact list.

Work Package areas – access to the WPs. E.g., regarding WP1 Project Management, deliverables, etc. can be accessed.

Reporting space – access to related reports, such as the necessary templates for reporting financial information, report technical progress and relevant to NOMAD external publications.

Figure 10: Snapshot of the NOMAD partners’ collaboration area

3.2.2 NOMAD EU Commission Area

The NOMAD EU commission area (see Figure 11) is accessible only by the EU and the reviewers. It consists of the Project final deliverables area. This area fully supports the collaboration among the EU commission.

Figure 11: Snapshot of the NOMAD EU Commission area

3.3 Facebook and Twitter Channels

In the NOMAD website Facebook and Twitter channels are provided. The NOMAD Facebook page and Twitter accounts are also available in the following URLs:

http://www.facebook.com/nomadeu

http://www.facebook.com/nomadeu


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http://twitter.com/nomadeu

3.3.1 Facebook Channel

Figure 12 presents NOMAD on Facebook.

http://twitter.com/nomadeu


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Figure 12: Follow NOMAD on Facebook


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3.3.2 Twitter Channel

Figure 12 presents NOMAD on Twitter.

Figure 13: Follow NOMAD on Twitter

0301D01_Project Quality & Assessment Plan

4. CONCLUSIONS

This Deliverable, D8.2 Project website, blog and twitter channels is part of the WP8 Dissemination and Exploitation and provided information regarding the design and implementation of the project website. The NOMAD website is publicly available since the early stage of the project (March, 2012) and is an important dissemination channel, as well as Facebook and Twitter, for the project results and spreading the NOMAD knowledge to wide audiences.

The NOMAD website, Facebook and Twitter channels will be continuously updated.

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