WP 8Dissemination and Awareness

Kamil Zágoršek, Jiří Frank, Lukáš Laibl, Martina Aubrechtová

National museum Prague

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Results achieved

• D14 & C8.6.1 & C8.6.2 Report(s) on outreach to educational sector

– Online survey via surveymonkey.net– Overall result of survey was positive– Educational sector represented by basic and high schools is open

to using multimedia content provided by OpenUp! through Europeana portal.

– Main criteria from educational sector are: easy navigation, quick access to results/content, high quality of data/metadata, good variability of content.

– Impacts on third planned survey – new user interface, common names search, EDM model of data…

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Results achieved• C8.4.4 Self-running demonstrator downloadable

from website– several parts for different target audiences – general,

content providers, technical.– two versions: PowerPoint presentation and video– downloadable from project website – documentation with guidelines about usage of the

demonstrator– next step will be add audio track

to video presentation

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Results achieved• Biodiversity Library Exhibition– two new themes• Poisonous Nature - more then 15 k unique visitors• Nature at Your Home

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Results achieved• Newsletter 3rd and 4th issue

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Results achieved• Project website– Migration to new CMS system: Drupal 6 –> Drupal 7– Upgrade from Scratchpads to Scratchpads 2– Improvements to website structure and function

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Results achieved

• Social network:

Facebook– number of

„likes“: 118

– number of followers: 49

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Results achieved• Social networks

– increase in activity – Over 3000 page views in

OpenUp! Blog, over 700 in March 2013

– increased diversity of Facebook's posts, e.g. quizzes, pictures, etc.

Mar 2012

Mar 2013

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Results achieved

• new OpenUp! poster – demonstration of

content

– general public and new content providers

– technical poster in preparation

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Results achieved

• Editorial of new events, publications and news on new project website

• Disseminated project in several meetings and conferences– TDWG meeting

– Europeana workshop

– LINQ…

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Results achieved

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Prepared this meeting

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Difficulties encountered and remedial actions

Difficulties encountered Remedial actionsUser surveys with low responses from foreign schools

Ask/contact larger number of schools or users.

Migration of website and unstable Scatchpads environment

Close collaboration with Scratchpads team on solving website issues and implementation of improvements.

Education survey complications to get maximum and objective responses – summer holidays; amount of OpenUp! content; provided services by OpenUp! project and their implementation on Eropeana portal; display of the data and metadata according to the ESE or EDM schema and user interface.

Timing of the surveys according to project and Europeana workplan, workflow and according to the schools' holidays and season.

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Workplan for year 3 – Project objectives

• New Dissemination and Extension Strategy

• Preparing new BLE theme

• Maintaining and improving website

• Disseminating project in various conferences and meetings

• Preparing next two Newsletter issues

• Disseminating project outcomes on social network

• Overall dissemination activities

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Workplan for year 3 – Reports