European Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (DG EMPL) Migration of the “Publications” Web Site Yves Garsou (Project Manager)

Context Abstract from the DG EMPL web site: – “The Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities has the task of contributing to the development of a modern, innovative and sustainable European Social Model with more and better jobs in an inclusive society based on equal opportunities.” – “It plays a key role in promoting positive interaction between economic, social and employment policies, bringing in the main players who can help to achieve the EU strategic objective, to make Europe the world most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.”

Purpose of the project DG EMPL required the upgrade of the “Publications” section of its web site employment_social/ emplweb/publication s/index_en.cfm employment_social/ emplweb/publication s/index_en.cfm

Purpose of the project Create and assist in the presentation of all the relevant information Facilitate the update and management of the relevant content through the use of an interactive Web Content Management tool Design the structure of the new web site Transfer content of the existing “Publications web site” to the new site Application of a new presentation template for specific documents ("Social Agenda“) Hosting of the web site on the EUROPA servers, respecting EUROPA’s IPG guidelines

Migration project I.R.I.S. has completed all the stages of the project life-cycle – Analysis – Design – Development – Implementation – Training – Technical maintenance

WCMS Based on the « Web publisher » product from EMC Documentum This product can manage web sites through 3 kinds of stage : WIP (Work in progress), Staging (tests), Production Common tool for all the Directorates General, hosted at the Data Center (DG DIGIT)

WCMS

Functional analysis Table of contents General specifications Header zone Footer zone Menu zone Content zone News pane Right column: dedicated panes Information architecture and site navigation Migration aspects

Web Design Publication banner Blue theme DG EMPL logo Publication Look & Feel Europa Look & Feel

Migration project Previous sub-site publication Social Agenda Pages Brochure Pages Information Pages Register Pages Migration WCMS constraints IPG rules Existing content New content

Extraction process (1/2) No need of web extractor tool! Content and metada are copied/pasted into well-formed XML files PDF and image files are downloaded All generated files are organized to ease the import in the WCMS

Extraction process (2/2) Social agenda PDF  HTML – Extraction of articles – Insertion of metadata – Extraction of images – Pagination

Import process Creation of the DG EMPL site WCMS application Creation of the Publication sub-site and all the necessary subfolders Use of import tool – English first

Development process Specific XSL template Specific CSS Specific requirement : « increase/decrease » button Linkgroup – Menu – External/internal links – Social agenda – Brochures

New publication site Publication banner Left block menu RSS news Right block Latest contents Links Increase/decrease Homepage & static pages

New publication site Social agenda list Quick search Advanced search Year classification Picture Abstract

New publication site Social agenda Link to DG EMPL web site Link to PDF files Link to all articles

New publication site Search Social Agenda Full-text Keywords Date

New publication site Brochures Theme classification Year classification Link to DG EMPL website Link to PDF file Link to EU Bookshop

New publication site RSS News Extracted from DG EMPL RSS feed Access to DG EMPL news page

New publication site Latest blocks Automatically display the latest social agenda / brochure with their associated pictures and links

New publication site Links blocks Display links depending on the displayed page (contextual)

Next steps Maintenance – New features – Change requests DG EMPL whole site or other sub-sites

European Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (DG EMPL) Migration of the “Publications” Web Site Yves Garsou (Project Manager) Thank you for your attention Questions ?