EUBrazilCC EU-Brazil Cloud infrastructure Connecting federated resources for Scientific Advancement D2.2 Web Platform development Contract number: FP7-614048 / Start Date of Project: 1 October 2013 Duration of Project: Work Package: 28 months Due Date: M7 30/04/2014 Submission Date: 30/04/2014 Partner Responsible for the Deliverable: Dissemination Level: Nature: Author(s): Reviewer(s): WP2 Community Engagement, Dissemination & Mobility Programme TRUST-IT PUBLIC OTHER Sara Pittonet Gaiarin Trust-IT Services Francisco Brasileiro - UFCG
Change Log Version Date Description Author(s) v1.0 29/04/2014 Initial Table of Contents & Draft Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Trust-IT Document Review Review Version Date Reviewers Comments QA v1.1 29/04/2014 Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG) Review of the deliverable Final v1.2 30/04/2014 Ignacio Blanquer (UPV) Final version edits D2.2 Web Platform development Page 2 of 16
Table of contents Disclaimer...4 Executive Summary...5 1. EUBrazil Cloud Connect Web Platform overview...6 1.1. Website sections and main architecture... 8 1.2. Graphical layouts... 9 2. Social Media profiles...14 3. Newsletter Tool...14 List of figures Figure 1 EUBrazil Cloud Connect web platform homepage... 7 Figure 2 Connect Updates news example list... 9 Figure 3 Basic page layout... 10 Figure 4 News List layout... 11 Figure 5 News layout... 12 Figure 6 Project Library layout... 13 Figure 7 EUBrazilCC social media profiles pages... 14 Figure 8 EUBrazilCC first newsletter online version... 16 D2.2 Web Platform development Page 3 of 16
Disclaimer EUBrazilCloudConnect EU-Brazil Cloud infrastructure Connecting federated resources for Scientific Advancement (2013-2015) (hereinafter EUBRazilCC ) is a Small or medium-scale focused research project (STREP) funded by the European Commission under the Cooperation Programme, Framework Programme Seven (FP7) Objective FP7-ICT-2013.10.2-EU-Brazil Research and Development cooperation, and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq) of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) under the corresponding matching Brazilian Call for proposals MCT/CNPq 013/2012. This document contains information on core activities, findings, and outcomes of EUBrazilCC project, and in some instances, distinguished experts forming part of the project s External Expert Committee. Any references to content in both website content and documents should clearly indicate the authors, source, organization and date of publication. The document has been produced with the co-funding of the European Commission and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the EUBrazilCC Consortium and its experts and cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission nor the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil. D2.2 Web Platform development Page 4 of 16
Executive Summary The public EUBrazil Cloud Connect web platform (http://www.eubrazilcloudconnect.eu/) is a versatile platform aimed at animating EUBrazil Cloud Connect community of users. The website will be dynamic and will change during the project lifetime as new updates come out. It will be the channel to showcase concrete results and success stories in which EUBrazil Cloud Connect will play a role. The portal will help to drive awareness on EUBrazil Cloud Connect federated environment providing independent and practical information, helping users in all sectors to understand and evaluate the benefits of EUBrazil Cloud Connect services. The delivered web platform is a powerful communication tool designed and produced according to the general guidelines to be expressed in the EUBrazil Cloud Connect Communication Strategy. Deliverable 2.2 is entitled Web Platform development and reports the properties, functionalities and value-add of the web platform built during the first phase of the EUBrazil Cloud Connect project and made available at project month 6 (March 2014), one month before the foreseen deadline. This document is basically a short description of the real deliverable, which is the website. D2.2 Web Platform development Page 5 of 16
1. EUBrazil Cloud Connect Web Platform overview EUBrazil Cloud Connect web platform is online at the address http://www.eubrazilcloudconnect.eu/. The EUBrazil Cloud Connect web platform is a versatile semantic based knowledge management platform aimed at animating the community of users by responding to their specific interests. The flexibility of its architecture allows the integration of different tools, gives the possibility to easily upload multimedia content and to customize the proposed content according to the characteristics and navigation history of its users. A version 0.1 of the web platform was delivered in month 5 for internal revision, while the public version was launched in March 2014. The homepage at month 7 is the one presented in the following image: D2.2 Web Platform development Page 6 of 16
Figure 1 EUBrazil Cloud Connect web platform homepage D2.2 Web Platform development Page 7 of 16
1.1. Website sections and main architecture During this first phase of the project the web platform sections have been populated with project related information, regarding objectives, scientific domains addressed and a short description of the use cases, together with relevant content organized according to format and topic: news items, publications and multimodal content (videos or photos). Specifically, the following menus are active: Federated environment: explaining EUBrazil Cloud Connect innovative approach to cloud federation and the e-infrastructure behind the project Our applications: presenting EUBrazil Cloud Connect services that will be tested on the use cases. This menu leads to the pages dedicated to the three use cases, that will be continuously updated as the activities in the project progress: o Leishmaniasis Virtual Laboratory o Heart Simulation Services o Biodiversity and Climate Change Cloudscape Brazil: this area is dedicated to the Cloudscape Brazil workshop series that EUBrazil Cloud Connect will organize. Information about Cloudscape Brazil 2014 has already been published in the dedicated page. News: this area contains EUBrazil Cloud Connect project news, in terms of general information, events, publications, updates, etc. About: providing general information on the project and on: o Project Scope and Objectives o EUBrazil Cloud Connect External Expert Committee o Consortium and who is involved Project Library: containing project documents relevant for external stakeholders, i.e. articles and press releases, presentations and papers. At this time it lists the details of 3 papers presented by EUBrazil Cloud Connect consortium and the first project press release. Stay in touch: provides a description of the EUBrazil Cloud Connect Community and of the benefits of joining it, as well as a generic contact form. Connected updates: a list of news are collected in the left column of each page website using RSS feeds from selected website and channels. They are tagged with different categories in line with the project use cases and fields of applications, namely Biodiversity News, Heart & Health News and Epidemiology News (see Figure 2). D2.2 Web Platform development Page 8 of 16
Figure 2 Connect Updates news example list Sign in: the registration form allows EUBrazil Cloud Connect to collect information about their users (personal information, information on role, organization, field of interest, etc.) and to exploit these information for conveying targeted messages to specific users and to build targeted marketing campaigns. At the present time (M7) there are 22 EUBrazil Cloud Connect web platform registered members. Other menus such as EUBrazil Cloud Connect assets, Upcoming and past events, Mobility and Job Opportunities are not active yet and will be published in line with the evolution of the project communication, outreach and education strategy. Other menus and functionalities will be added along the project evolution to respond to specific dissemination and engagement needs. 1.2. Graphical layouts Different layouts have been designed associated to different content type. An example of different layout is provided in the images below. D2.2 Web Platform development Page 9 of 16
Figure 3 Basic page layout D2.2 Web Platform development Page 10 of 16
Figure 4 News List layout D2.2 Web Platform development Page 11 of 16
Figure 5 News layout D2.2 Web Platform development Page 12 of 16
Figure 6 Project Library layout D2.2 Web Platform development Page 13 of 16
2. Social Media profiles At the present time 3 project social media profiles have been created and associated to the project web platform on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. 3. Figure 7 EUBrazilCC social media profiles pages D2.2 Web Platform development Page 14 of 16
Newsletter Tool The delivery of the EUBrazil Cloud Connect web platform included the integration of the Newsletter tool, which allows enews and eannouncements generation through direct selection of the content published on the EUBrazil Cloud Connect web platform, as well as content manually edited. The provision of a periodic e-newsletter service facilitates the communication of all the latest news related to the use cases and applications, events, publications and papers. enewsletters are received prior to subscription where they provide some information on their personal and professional interests as well as disseminated through the project social media channels. The first project newsletter is going to be sent out by month 7 (April 2014) and it is presented in the image below (online version screenshot). D2.2 Web Platform development Page 15 of 16
Figure 8 EUBrazilCC first newsletter online version D2.2 Web Platform development Page 16 of 16