D6.3: CONSENSUS Web Page

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1 SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THEME ICT "ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling" D6.3: CONSENSUS Web Page Project acronym: CONSENSUS Project full title: Multi-Objective Decision Making Tools through Citizen Engagement Contract no.: Workpackage: Editor: Nikos Dimakopoulos ATC Author(s): Nikos Dimakopoulos, Anna Triantafillou ATC Authorized by Anna Triantafillou ATC Reviewer Konstantinos Tserpes ICCS Dissemination Level Public

2 CONSENSUS Consortium No Name Short name Country 1 Institute of Communication and Computer Systems/National Technical University of Athens NTUA Greece 2 IBM Israel Science and Technology Ltd. IBM Israel 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IIASA Austria 4 Athens Technology Center ATC Greece 5 University of Konstanz UKON Germany 6 OXFAM Italia ONLUS OXFAM Italy 7 WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature WWF Switzerland 8 European Union Road Federation ERF Belgium Document History Version Date Changes Author/Affiliation V0.1 21/10/ s Nikos draft Dimakopoulos/ATC V0.2 11/11/ nd draft Anna Triantafillou/ATC V0.3 29/11/ rd Nikos Dimakopoulos, draft / website publicly Anna Triantafillou available /ATC V0.4 24/12/ th draft including changes in chapter 3 V1.0 27/12/2013 Final version of the document Nikos Dimakopoulos /ATC Anna Triantafillou / ATC Consensus Output/Deliverable D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 2 of 27 The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/ ] under grant agreement no

3 Executive Summary This deliverable, D6.3 The CONSENSUS Website, presents the functionality of the official website of the CONSENSUS project. The document describes the infrastructure of the CONSENSUS website as well as presents the publicly and partner s accessible area of the site. Consensus Output/Deliverable D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 3 of 27 The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/ ] under grant agreement no

4 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION WEBSITE INFRASTRUCTURE URL WEBSITE ARCHITECTURE OTHER ISSUES Hosting Site statistics Compatibility with Browsers WEBSITE DESCRIPTION PUBLIC ACCESS AREA PRIVATE ACCESS AREA CONCLUSIONS LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 : CONSENSUS website map... 9 Figure 2 - Snapshot of the CONSENSUS home page Figure 3 Snapshot of the Rational page Figure 4 - Snapshot of the Objectives page Figure 5 - Snapshot of the Approach page Figure 6 - Snapshot of the Consortium page Figure 7 - Snapshot of the Links page Figure 8 - Snapshot of the Use Cases page Figure 9 - Snapshot of the Results page Figure 10 - Snapshot of the Impact page Figure 11 - Snapshot of the Publications page Figure 12 - Snapshot of the public Deliverables page Figure 13 - Snapshot of the Material page Figure 14 - Snapshot of the News page Consensus Output/Deliverable D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 4 of 27 The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/ ] under grant agreement no

5 Figure 15: Snapshot of the extra features of the CONSENSUS home page Figure 16: Snapshot of the CONSENSUS Private Area Consensus Output/Deliverable D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 5 of 27 The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/ ] under grant agreement no

6 1 Introduction The purpose of deliverable D6.3 is to set up the CONSENSUS website which will serve as a collaboration tool for knowledge, experience and best practice sharing, as well as results consolidation and dissemination support. The CONSENSUS website will provide all related information about the CONSENSUS 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. In Section 2 follows a description of the website infrastructure. More specifically, the website architecture is presented and the features regarding the underlying platform are described. Section 3 provides the website description. 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. 2 Website Infrastructure 2.1 URL The CONSENSUS consortium has acquired the following URL which will be used by Internet users for accessing the CONSENSUS website and the platform as well. Since December 1 st, 2013 the site is publicly available. 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 CONSENSUS partners will have access and will be used as a tool for the exchange of documents. The underlying platform is Drupal ( which is a free software package that allows easily organizing, managing and publishing content, with an endless variety of customization. Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers. It's distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 6 of 27

7 License (or "GPL"), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others. This open development model means that people are constantly working to make sure Drupal is a cutting-edge platform that supports the latest technologies that the Web has to offer. The Drupal project's principles encourage modularity, standards, collaboration, ease-of-use, and more. 2.3 Other issues Hosting The whole platform is hosted in ATC premise in Greece. The servers (Windows Server) used for hosting guarantee the 24/7 operation of the platform, as they are capable of handling high load and operate on a 50Mbps 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 Site statistics The statistics regarding the visitors of the website are constantly recorded and stored, using the Google Analytics 1 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 Compatibility with Browsers The website is compatible with the following web browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or higher Apple Safari 3.0 or higher Google Chrome 3 Website Description 3.1 Public Access Area The structure of the CONSENSUS website consists of the following web pages: Homepage Project o o CONSENSUS Rational Objectives 1 Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 7 of 27

8 o Approach Community o o Consortium Links Outcomes o o o Use Cases Results Impact Downloads o o o Publications Deliverables Material News The above structure with the additional texts blocks of the website is depicted in the following website-map (Figure 1). Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 8 of 27

9 Follow Us CONSENSUS Vision (short text) linked to the related page Get In Touch Welcome Message WELCOME Page Use Case: Biofuels & Climate Change (short text) linked to the related page Slider & Slogans Use Case: Transportation Networks(short text) linked to the related page News Project (Menu item) no content Community (Menu item) no content Outcomes (Menu item) no content Downloads (Menu item) no content Private Area CONSENSUS Vision Consortium Use Cases Publications Project Repository Users Testimonials Objectives Approach CONSENSUS Challenges About Us Links Use Cases: Biofuels & Climate Change Use Case: Transportation Networks Results Deliverables Material Impact Figure 1 : CONSENSUS website map Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 9 of 27

10 The following sections provide an overview of the project website including snapshots and short descriptions per webpage. Home Page The home page provides a welcome message to the project s website. It also provides a short overview and links to the project rational and pilot Use Cases, access to the latest news and twitter updates. A contact form as well as a Get in Touch section is also included. The following figure shows a screenshot of the Home page. Figure 2 - Snapshot of the CONSENSUS home page Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 10 of 27

11 Project The project rational, objectives and approach are presented in the relevant webpages. CONCENSUS Rational webpage, as depicted in the Figure 3, gives information about the Rational of the project. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Figure 3 Snapshot of the Rational page Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 11 of 27

12 Objectives webpage, as presented in the Figure 4 (Snapshot of the Objectives page), presents the Objectives of the project. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Figure 4 - Snapshot of the Objectives page Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 12 of 27

13 Approach webpage, as presented in the Figure 5 (Snapshot of the Approach page) gives information about the project s methodology. Users Testimonials regarding expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Figure 5 - Snapshot of the Approach page Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 13 of 27

14 Community The project consortium and relevant links to the project are presented in the relevant webpages. Consortium webpage, Figure 6 (Snapshot of the Consortium page), presents the project partners and provides links to their official websites. Figure 6 - Snapshot of the Consortium page Links webpage, as presented in Figure 7 (Snapshot of the Consortium page), provides a list of relevant links to the project such as other research projects in the field of ICT for Policy modeling. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 14 of 27

15 Figure 7 - Snapshot of the Links page Project Outcomes The pilot use cases, the (expected) project results as well as the (expected) impact are presented in the relevant webpages. Use Cases webpage, as presented in the Figure 8 - Snapshot of the Use Cases page(snapshot of the Use Cases page), gives relevant information for the project pilot use cases, the Transportation Networks & Biofuels & Climate Change. The webpages will be Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 15 of 27

16 updated throughout the project period including relevant information about the progress of the project pilots as well as the related outcomes. Figure 8 - Snapshot of the Use Cases page Results webpage, as depicted in the Figure 9 - Snapshot of the Results page(snapshot of the Results page) presents the expected results of the project. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. The webpage will be continuously updated in order to provide relevant information to the project progress and related results. Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 16 of 27

17 Figure 9 - Snapshot of the Results page Impact webpage, as presented in the Figure 10 (Snapshot of the Impact page), gives an overview of the project s target Outcomes and Expected Impact. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 17 of 27

18 Figure 10 - Snapshot of the Impact page Downloads The project publications, deliverables as well as dissemination materials will be available through the relevant webpages. Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 18 of 27

19 Publications webpage, as presented in the Figure 11 (Snapshot of the Publications page), provides access to the project publications that will be uploaded throughout the project period. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Figure 11 - Snapshot of the Publications page Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 19 of 27

20 Deliverables webpage, as presented in the Figure 12 (Snapshot of the public Deliverables page) provides a list of all delivered public reports / deliverables of the Project. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Figure 12 - Snapshot of the public Deliverables page Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 20 of 27

21 Material webpage, as depicted in the Figure 13 (Snapshot of the Material page), provides a list of the promotional project materials that will be produced during the project period. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Figure 13 - Snapshot of the Material page Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 21 of 27

22 News The project news as well as related blogs will be available through the relevant webpages. News webpage, as presented in the Figure 14 (Snapshot of the News page), provides access to the latest project s news and blogs. Users Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided. Figure 14 - Snapshot of the News page Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 22 of 27

23 Additional Features The CONSENSUS website has the following additional features as presented also in the Figure 15: Snapshot of the extra features of the CONSENSUS ): LinkedIn and Twitter channels; The Contact Us form; CONSENSUS Twitter Updates and Latest News Taxonomy tags per page text The Private Area option Back to Top button Figure 15: Snapshot of the extra features of the CONSENSUS site Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 23 of 27

24 3.2 Private Access Area The internal Partners Area of the CONSENSUS project is the project repository that all relevant project documentation is stored centrally. It is also used for exchanging information among members of the CONSENSUS consortium and for the EU Commission. The private Area of the CONSENSUS website consists of various components. When working together these components offer all the functionality required for the private area. The components that are used are: HTML Module Documents (with version control) module Drupal user permissions The user permissions functionality grants access to the private area only to users that have been verified by the website administrators. The HTML module gives all the navigation information needed to the user allowing him to easily navigate the private area. The Documents module takes care of the hosting/upload/management of the Documents that are uploaded to the repository. It also protects the documents from non-verified users. The following figure gives a snapshot of the CONSENSUS private area. Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 24 of 27

25 Figure 16: Snapshot of the CONSENSUS Private Area CONSENSUS partners have access to this area and can push and pull information regarding the followings: Project Information access to general project information, such as description of work, contact list. Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 25 of 27

26 Project Meetings access to information about project meetings, such as agenda, presentations, minutes. Project Deliverables access to the project deliverables. Project WPs access to supportive material and document per WP. Administrative Issues access to related administrative issues, such as CONSENSUS contractual documents. Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 26 of 27

27 4 Conclusions This Deliverable, D6.3 Project Website is part of the WP6 Dissemination and Exploitation and provided information regarding the design and implementation of the project website. The CONSENSUS website is publicly available since the early stage of the project (1 st December, 2013) and is an important dissemination channel, for the project results and spreading the CONSENSUS knowledge to wide audiences. The CONSENSUS website will be continuously maintained and updated. Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 27 of 27