1 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Information Clearing House WS4, Conceptual Design Technical Specification October 05, 2005, 02.00pm to 05.00pm

2 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Workshop 4: Technical Specification Conceptual Design Workshop 4 »Information Clearing House« Date: October 05, pm to 05.00pm Participants Robert Marcus KlumpREEEP, Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership Claudia CernohubyREEEP, Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership Martin Kaltenböckpunkt. netServices, Austria Andreas Kollerpunkt. netServices, Austria

3 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Agenda Introduction Workshop (10’) Specification of needed software licences, 1st & 2nd release step (45’) BREAK---- (10´) Specification of Screen Design Guidelines (60’) Procedure Release step 1 & release step 2 (30’) BREAK---- (10´) Editorial Workflow ICH: Tasks & Respources (30’) Hosting ICH: Guidelines & Contract (30’) Wrap up & Close up (15’)

4 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Guidelines Screen Design ICH Users: Attributes (Age, Gender, Internet Usage,...)  Results Questionnaire What Corporate Identity is the basis for the Screen Design of the ICH? (=AC?) Emotions & Identity? Usage of Symbols – Colour coding – handling of photos? How can Screen Design support the usage of the Information Clearing House? 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?

5 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Procedure Release step 1

6 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Procedure Release step 2

7 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Editorial Workflow ICH Roles & Levels of Administration: Administration of the search engine, User management, Actors Catalogue & other internal managed content Internal Content: Content producing - Editorial Office (=Lectorate) - Release steps? Model for continuous Quality Assurance of internal & external content? Content Life Cycle: Looking for new information sources, checking existing sources, managing broken links, … Tasks for Administration Team ICH: Current User Management (Actors Catalogue, login area,..) AC – quality assurance (new entries, user requests) Information sources: current check of existing sources & evaluation of new sources Current monitoring of the statistical data of the ICH Drawing of conclusions concerning search mechanism, content life cycle, etc. Current refinement of the K-Map (correcting of terminology, expanding the K-Map) Contact person for information provider, answering incoming requests of organisations, etc. Co-ordination of internal & external marketing activities Administration of the search engine Contact person for the technical partner(s)

8 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Hosting ICH Architecture of Web Hosting: Web Server, Apache L4 Server for Indexer & Networker Database Server Backup Server 2 Name Server Hosting by rent: Contract needs to be drawn up. Don’t forget: Specify the domain strategy of ICH

9 ______________________________________ © 2005 punkt. netServices Information Clearing House WS4, Conceptual Design Technical Specification October 05, 2005, 02.00pm to 05.00pm