The Story of a Portal

IIEP’s response to the learning issue …

… to serve the needs of UNESCO Member States

Classroom

displays

Language of instruction

ICTProvide objective information and analyses on learning issues

What are the policy options for improving learning outcomes?

How does a Ministry of Education choose from the many tools and approaches that exist?

School grants

Prepared teachers

Teaching learning

materialsIn-service training

School facilities

School-ready

chidren

What is learning Improve learning

Tools for planners Monitor learning

One entry point to give education actors the tools to understand and participate in planning for improved learning outcomes

An ambitious beginning

Multilingual ParticipativeState of the art

Innovative technology: a semantic portal

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Innovative technology UNESCO

ThesaurusGlossary

IIEP Classification

Linked data

Glossary

UNESCO Thesaurus

IIEP Classification

Linking data

The portal’s content web pages are tagged using IIEP’s library classification topics and terms from the glossary

Linking data

Phase 1: the back end

Project specifications were sent to 5 providers

3 out of 5 decided to present a joint proposal

Phase 2: the front end

Web design and CMS

Learning Portal

Theory versus reality

Multiple funders = multiple reporting formats

Multiple contributors

New working methods for Information Services team

No clear overall management

NO TIME

“Semantic Web Cake” by Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the World Wide Web)also known as Semantic Web Stack

An innovative technology… for librarians

(…not a piece of cake)

Timeline

Phase One - repositoryNov 2012: call for expressions of interestMarch 2013: choose providerJan – March: develop and test

Phase two - CMSJan 2014 : call for expressions of interestMarch 2014 : choose provider n°2May 2014: develop prototypeJune 2014: testing phaseJuly 2014: end of developmentEnd July 2014: transfer and launch

Achieved

Phase One - repositoryNov 2012: call for expressions of interestMarch 2013: choose providerJan – March: develop and test

Phase two - CMSJan 2014 : call for expressions of interestMarch 2014 APRIL : choose provider n°2May 2014 JUNE-JULY : develop prototypeJune 2014 SEP-OCT: testing phaseJuly 2014 FEB 2015: end of developmentEnd July 2014 END 2015: transfer and launch

Planned

Branding

Well received

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Phase 3: 2016-