Project Title: Contract No: Instrument: Thematic Priority: FIRESENSE: Fire Detection and Management through a Multi-Sensor Network for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Areas from the Risk of Fire and Extreme Weather Conditions FP7-ENV-2009-1-244088 STREP Start of project: 1 December 2009 Duration: Environment (including Climate Change) 36 months Deliverable No: D2 FIRESENSE Web Site Due date of deliverable: Actual submission date: Version: Main Authors: 28 February 2010 17 March 2010 v5 (final) Nikos Grammalidis (CERTH), Kosmas Dimitropoulos (CERTH) Project funded by the European Community under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
Project ref. number Project title ENV-244088 FIRESENSE - Fire Detection and Management through a Multi-Sensor Network for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Areas from the Risk of Fire and Extreme Weather Deliverable title Deliverable number Deliverable version FIRESENSE Web Site D2 Version 5 (final) Previous version(s) Versions 1-4 Contractual date of delivery 28 February 2010 Actual date of delivery 17 March 2010 Deliverable filename Nature of deliverable Dissemination level D2-Web site_v5_final.doc O PU / RE Number of pages 16 Workpackage 8 Partner responsible Author(s) Editor EC Project Officer CERTH Nikos Grammalidis (CERTH), Kosmas Dimitropoulos (CERTH) Nikos Grammalidis (CERTH) Michel Chapuis Abstract Keywords This report describes the structure and current content of the FIRESENSE Web site www.firesense.eu, hosted by ITI-CERTH. Web site, Joomla, public & private part, file repository Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 2 of 16
Table of Contents 1. Executive summary... 4 2. Public part... 5 2.1 Home Page... 5 2.2 Main menu... 6 2.3 Project Results menu... 8 3. Private part... 9 3.1 File Repository... 11 4. Add-ons and additional features... 14 5. References... 16 Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 3 of 16
1. Executive summary This report describes the structure and current content of the FIRESENSE Web site www.firesense.eu, hosted by ITI-CERTH. The domain www.firesense.eu was reserved by ITI-CERTH for one year but this subscription is planned to last for at least 3 years after the end of the FIRESENSE project, as stated in the FIRESENSE technical annex. The site was created using the award-winning Joomla Content Management System (CMS), which allows building Web sites and powerful online applications. Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone [1]. The last version currently available by Joomla is used, namely version 1.5.15 for the construction of the Web site. Other updates and enhancements of the site are planned in the future. The site contains a public and a private part that are briefly outlined in the following pages. Many Joomla modules and plug-ins have been installed. In addition, a custom page was developed, using PHP, to allow the real-time display of the persons subscribed to the FIRESENSE mailing lists (currently manually configured through another ITI-CERTH server). All the pages contain the same banner with the FIRESENSE logo and menus, so that visitors can easily navigate in the site. Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 4 of 16
2. Public part The various sections included in the Public part are discussed below. 2.1 Home Page The first page presented when visiting the website http://www.firesense.eu is the Home Page, where some general information about the FIRESENSE Project is presented. Furthermore, recent announcements about the activities of the project will be published at this page. Consortium, News & events and Contact Information are easily accessible both from the Top menu (above the logo) and Main menu (left column). Guests have also full access to a specific section of the Forum that is open for guests as well as the Calendar feature providing a calendar of past and future FIRESENSE-related events. Figure 2-1 Home page: Upper part (public part) Menus that allow the user to access Project Results (discussed below), to Login (to the private part) and to see the Upcoming Events and Calendar Overview (right column) are also available. Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 5 of 16
Figure 2-2 Home page: Bottom part (public part) At the bottom of the page, the Latest News and most Popular items of the site are presented. 2.2 Main menu Currently, the Main menu has pages with links to: 1) Project (General Description) a. Objectives b. Need c. Methodology d. Technologies (Sensors, Algorithms and Systems that are planned to be used) e. Innovation 2) Consortium (logos, short descriptions and contacts for each partner). Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 6 of 16
Figure 2-3 Consortium: Linkable logos and partner descriptions (public part) 3) News & Events 4) Contact information 5) Forum: The Kunena (previous Firebird) Forum module is used [2]. Guests have currently access to only two Forum Categories, namely: Welcome to FIRESENSE and Suggestion Box. Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 7 of 16
Figure 2-4 Consortium: Forum 6) Calendar: The Calendar (Joomla GCalendar) module makes use of the Google calendar [3]. A distributed FIRESENSE calendar is created and access to this calendar is provided to FIRESENSE members. Each FIRESENSE member can enter events and additional information in this calendar, and all these events are displayed automatically in this section of the Web site, as well as in the Upcoming Events area. 2.3 Project Results menu Currently, the Project Results menu has pages with links to: 1) Pilot Sites and Tests: Descriptions of all 5 test sites, including maps and pictures from each site. 2) Deliverables: List of Public FIRESENSE Deliverables (including links to download them). 3) Demos: Descriptions of FIRESENSE Demos and the obtained results (to be added in the future). 4) Publications: Publications of the FIRESENSE project (to be added in the future). Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 8 of 16
3. Private part After a user is registered to FIRESENSE site, an email is automatically sent to him with a link to confirm his email address. After the user confirms his email by clicking this link, a notification is sent to the FIRESENSE site administrator, who has to manually enable the user and to assign him to one of the user groups (Members, registered users, User group, etc). After this registration procedure is completed, the user is able to Login from the Login module located at the left column, using the password he was provided. If a user has forgotten his password or username, he can use the related link to get an e-mail reminding him his password. After a user has logged in, a new Menu appears in the left column (User menu), providing access to additional features for registered users (Private site), as illustrated in Figure 3-1. Figure 3-1 Private part of web site. All additional features that are available in the User Menu are described below: 1) Profile: Profile information for each registered user information about the articles that he submitted, is also available. 2) Submit an Article: FIRESENSE project members have Joomla Author permissions, which allows them to submit articles. These articles have to be authorized by an administrator before they are published. 3) Submit a Web Link: Registered users can submit Web Links. Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 9 of 16
4) Users-list: List of all site users, according to their group: FIRESENSE project members or User group 5) Web Links: Various interesting Web Links provided by FIRESENSE users 6) File Repository: A signed-in registered user may upload or download internal documents that are intended for FIRESENSE members and/or registered users. More information about the File Repository is given in Section 3.1. 7) Photo Gallery: Photos from meetings/events and other images for FIRESENSE registered users (access permissions can be configured). 8) Chat: Simple chat module for FIRESENSE registered users. 9) Sitemap: Produces a sitemap with links to all site sections (including File repository) 10) Mailing list members: A custom page has been created using PHP (the Jumi Joomla plug-in was used to support simple PHP scripts) to allow the real-time display of the people subscribed to the FIRESENSE mailing lists (currently manually configured through another ITI-CERTH server). 11) Logout page: Allows users to logout. Figure 3-2 FIRESENSE Mailing List members Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 10 of 16
3.1 File Repository All project documents (including internal discussion papers and other documents which do not directly contribute to formal deliverables), multimedia, data and software will be stored in the File Repository. Access is only available to FIRESENSE Members. FTP access is also supported from ftp://www.firesense.eu (could be more efficient for large files), however in the latter case the coordinator will have to be contacted to publish these files. The File Repository provides facilities for: Uploading documents Searching for documents (full-text search) Downloading documents The sections of the File Repository as can be seen in Figure 3-3 are: Contract: Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement. Data_and_Software Data: FIRESENSE-related data. Software: FIRESENSE-related software. Deliverables_and_Periodic_Reports Deliverables: Public and Private Deliverables. Periodic Reports: Periodic reports (18-month) and Scientific reports to the EC (9-month). Dissemination_Material: FIRESENSE Logos, brochures, leaflets and other dissemination material. Guides: Useful guides (financial, management, etc) for FIRESENSE partners. Internal_Reports: Subfolders will be defined for each reporting period (quarter). Literature_Repository: Previous work and FIRESENSE-related publications. Meetings: Agenda and minutes of each meeting all presentations in a Presentations subfolder. Publications: Only for publications made within FIRESENSE project. Templates: Templates for documents, reports, timesheets, etc. UserGroup:Documents concerning FIRESENSE user groups, e.g. invitation to join, questionnaires, etc. Working_Documents: Includes separate subfolders for each WP preliminary deliverable draft version should be stored here. Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 11 of 16
Figure 3-3 FIRESENSE File Repository structure Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 12 of 16
Figure 3-4 FIRESENSE File Repository: Working_Documents folder Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 13 of 16
4. Add-ons and additional features Various add-ons have been added to provide additional functionalities and to enhance Web-site security. Additional modules/plug-ins may be installed in the future, if needed. Some examples are: 1) Registration validator: Protection from bots and spammer logins. BotScout (http://www.botscout.com/ ) is also used by this module to prevent such users from registering. 2) Jumi allows the easy integration of PHP scripts. This has already been used to produce real-time lists of mailing list members. 3) mavikthumbnails allows to automatically create thumbnails for large images, such as the ones for the Greek test side. 4) Full Site Search is supported using a Search box located in the top-right corner of each Web page in the site. 5) An RSS feed has also been created [5]. 6) Google Analytics support: From 21 Dec 2009, we use Google analytics [4] to monitor the traffic of FIRESENSE web page. Some preliminary results for these first two months of the site are presented in Figure 4-1 and Figure 4-2. Figure 4-1 Google Analytics Statistics Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 14 of 16
Figure 4-2 Geographical Distribution of FIRESENSE web page visitors As seen, within its first 2 months FIRESENSE web site of operation, FIRESENSE Web site was visited 987 times from 37 countries. It already ranks 1 st in Google searches for firesense project and firesense, which is a remarkable achievement within such a short time. Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 15 of 16
5. References [1] http://www.joomla.org/ [2] http://www.kunena.com/ [3] http://www.google.com/calendar [4] http://www.google.com/analytics/ [5] http://www.firesense.eu/index.php?format=feed&type=rss Filename: D2-Web site_v5_final.doc Page 16 of 16