CIRCA 3.x status at the EC Hans Kohl, Jean-Marie Weissenberger European Commission, Directorate General INFORMATICS

Topics: CIRCA FORUM production service CIRCA clients CIRCA enhancements 2005-2006 and Next steps Support 07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207

07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207

CIRCA production service figures Around 2100 Interest Groups 850 active Interest Groups 640 000 documents Over 15000 active users Close to 100 000 requests per day 07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207

CIRCA - clients Open Source distribution 66 Member States and Candidate Countries administrations have received a free license 20 different countries 21 licensees in Germany Used by over 20 environment offices in context of Environment Agency Network (EIONET) In total: about 100 installations 07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207

CIRCA production service Migration of CIRCA service on new server (11/2005) The file system has been fully redesigned A (10 times) higher speed of the network interface Increased RAM capacity from 8 to 16 Gb. Redundancy of some hardware components will guarantee more availability 07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207

CIRCA enhancements 2005-2006 Spanish Interfaces installed CIRCA 3.3 upgrade p20 to p24 New back-end servers Maximum possible indexed data increased from 64K to 16M of textual information per item 'Sign in' link in the CIRCA Home Page Faster LDAP backup … And around 30 small improvements and bug fixes 07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207

CIRCA enhancements 2006 (ctd) and next steps Improve language localization possibilities Security and Privacy enhancements Copy/move facilities Roadmap – last major release WAI compliance (for ‘readers’) Message templates User management improved synchronization Dossiers 07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207

Support For CIRCA services running at the Data Centre of the Commission and available to the whole IDA community. Provision of help-desk services according to the agreed Service Level Agreement: average number of 250 requests per month Provision of support services including dedicated support to new IG leaders for setting-up their interest group in CIRCA; Training sessions; presentations / demonstrations Nature of Helpdesk requests: Helpdesk cases were mainly user management (60%) and library issues (15%) 07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207

CIRCA 3.x status Questions – at discussion point Hans.Kohl@ec.europa.eu (+352) 4301 32682 Jean-Marie.Weissenberger@ec.europa.eu (+352) 4301 37035 Informatics DG, Corporate IT Infrastructure Solutions, E-Government Information Solutions Thank you for your attention 07/12/2006 CIRCA/BC IPM DEV Conf 20061207