1 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Information Clearing House WS, Conceptual Design Actor’s Catalogue August 23, 2005, 11.00am to 03.00pm

2 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Kick-Off Meeting Participants Conceptual Design Workshop »Actor’s Catalogue, Information Clearing House« Date: August 23, am to 3.00pm Participants Anna FlorowskiFederal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conversation & Nuclear Safety, Germany Martin SchöpeFederal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conversation & Nuclear Safety, Germany Robert Marcus KlumpREEEP, Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership Andreas Blumauerpunkt. netServices, Austria Martin Kaltenböckpunkt. netServices, Austria

3 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Agenda Introduction Workshop (10´) State of Affairs: Actor's Catalogue & Questionnaire (45´) (Spreadsheet, Instructions, Actors & Categories, Questionnaire) BREAK---- (5´) Actors: Describing fields & Meta Data (45´) (Organisational Data, Meta Data: regional, categories for actors, categories for sectors, Editorial Workflow) LUNCH BREAK---- (40´) (Technical) Implementation Actor’s Catalogue (60´) (Content Management System, Login Area, Search- Browse Mechanism, Navigation Concept) BREAK---- (5´) Guidelines: Screen Design Actor’s Catalogue (30´) (Corporate Identity, Emotions, Prioritisation of Elements) Web Hosting Actor’s Catalogue ( & ICH) (15´) Next Steps Actor’s Catalogue (15´)

4 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices State of Affairs Actual Version Spreadsheet & Instructions Actor’s Catalogue Next steps: Actor’s Catalogue (Actors Definition, Categorization, Evaluation, Implementation…) The Actor’s Catalogue as a Part of Information Clearing House State of Affairs: Questionnaire (Current Feedback, Examples PWC, EUWI) Next steps: Questionnaire (Final Version, Procedure: Distribution to Experts (Motivation, Mix of Experts – regions, gender, categories), IT support, Evaluation, Presentation of Results)

5 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Actors: Describing fields & Meta Data Describing fields for Organisations/Institutions Title, Description, Contact Data, Logo, …. Meta Data Regions, Categories, Categories for Sectors,… Additional Meta Data Author, Date, Last Change, Copyright, … Additional Content Actor‘s Catalogue Instructions, Imprint, Glossary of Terms, About this Site, …

6 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Actors Catalogue: Editorial Workflow Roles: Content Producing/Engineering? Levels of Administration (User Profiles, Types of Authentification)? Editorial Office (=Lecturate) and Release steps? Model for Quality Assurance Content Life Cycle: Which system is needed: Is IT-support for Editorial Workflows needed? (z.B. To Do Lists, Message Board, Messaging, …) Statistics needed of the Actor’s Catalogue (e.g. top ranking actors, top ranking regions and/or categories) Mechanism of Motivation for external Content Management? ReleaseContent Engineering Editorial office Versioning Archiving Organisation/ Institution edits own Data

7 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices (Technical) Implementation Actor’s Catalogue (Internal) Content Management System (Administration, User Management, …) Navigation, Browse- &, Search Mechanism (Main- & Sub Navigation(s), Sitemap, Full Text Search, Filtering, Search Profile, …) Mechanism for external Content Management (Login Area, User Management, …) RSS Feed of Actors needed? Prioritisation of specified elements? (Constant available elements, on main page available elements, …) Later Connection to the REEEP/REN21 Knowledge Map (ICH)? Needed Features per Content Nugget? (Print, Recommend, Bookmark, V-card, Associated Terms, …)

8 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Guidelines: Screen Design Actor’s Catalogue 1 AC Users: Attributes (Age, Gender, Internet Usage,...) What Corporate Identity is the basis for the Screen Design of the AC? Emotions & Identity? Clear Characterisation of Links needed? How can we characterise them? Usage of Symbols? How can Screen Design support the usage of the Actor‘s Catalogue? Dimension (starting from 800x600 or 1024x768)? Importance of Performance (depending on the target groups)? Types of Devices (PC, MAC, PDA, Mobile Phones, other)? E-Inclusion – Accessibility? WAI/W3C standards?

9 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Guidelines: Screen Design Actor’s Catalogue 2

10 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Web Hosting Actor’s Catalogue Domain Strategy (e.g. actors.org, …) Actor‘s Catalogue Website as a part of reeep.org and/or ren21.org Actor‘s Catalogue as a part of the Information Clearing House Inhouse System versus Hosting/Housing by Rent

11 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Next Steps Actor’s Catalogue Finalisation Actor‘s Definition (Including Results of Experts, Finalisation Spreadsheet) Decision for Data Storage (Db) Decision for Web Hosting (Domains(s), Hosting System, Integration in existing systems) Acceptance of the (rough) concept Prototyping Screen Design (plus Acceptance) (Technical) Implementation of the Actor`s Catalogue Testing (Performance, OS) & User Tests Presentation: October 17th 2005 Release Date, Testing & Refinement

12 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Information Clearing House WS, Conceptual Design Actor’s Catalogue August 23, 2005, 11.00am to 03.00pm