UNESCO Multilingual Knowledge Collaborative Portal Project

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UNESCO Multilingual Knowledge Collaborative
Portal Project

• International Conference on Web Management for
  International Organisations
• Denise Pelissier
• d.pelissier_at_unesco.org

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Plan

• UNESCO in brief
• Why a portal
• From the existing Web to the Portal
• Functionalities
• Road map
• Functionnal and technical architecture in brief
• Web Content Management Module
• Objects e.g. books discussions translations
• Guidelines
• Portal Management
• Team , Members rights
• Data Repositories
• Search engines
• Audience measures
• Conclusions

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization

• Headquarters in Paris
• Field Offices ( 56 )
• Staff 2000 ( 500 in the Field )
• Regular Budget 270 Million dollars
  188 Member states
• Permanent Delegations
• National Commissions

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UNESCO performs five principal functions

• Prospective Studies what forms of education,
  science, culture and communication for tomorrow's
  world?
• Advancement, transfer and sharing of knowledge
  relying primarily on research, training and
  teaching activities.
• Standard-setting action preparation and
  adoption of international instruments and
  statutory recommendations.
• Expertise to Member States development policies
  and projects
• Exchange of specialized information.

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WHY a Portal ?
A unique and integrated tool to

• Federate and access all information sources from
  UNESCO
• Learn more about UNESCO activities
• Share Information and Knowledge Virtual
  Communities
• Discussion forums
• Collaborative work
• Personalization/customization
• Receive by email News and Newsletters
• See only a subset of the site ( profile )

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UNESCO Knowledge PortalBackground

• Medium Term Strategy 2002-2007Contribution
  of ICTs to the development of education, science
  , culture and the construction of a knowledge
  society
• Sub-portals
• Communication , Information
• Education
• Ocean/Coastal research Management
• Global Heritage
• Digi-Arts (Fostering artistic creativity and
  cultural diversity)
• Partners

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Existing Web
100 000 pages (html or pdf)
45 gigas
100 000 images
100 vidéos and audios
Data Bases 50
50 Webs sectoriels
50 Web sites
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Tools / Services
Information
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Road Map
2nd Semester 2001

• Survey of commercial Softwares Multiclients
  study Internet survey
• Presentation of commercial editors
• IBM, ORACLE , BEA
• Web Content Management ModuleSelection of
  Simplify ( Tomoye )
• Starting production with Simplify
• Strenghthening of infrastructure

2002
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Web Content Management Module General Structure

• Objects Data Base ( MySQl )
• Documents
• Experts
• Projects
• Website

• Taxonomy ( topics )
• Subjects
• Countries
• Audience

Personalization Authentification
LDAP
Metadata XML
Highlights
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Simplify Portal Home Page Example
Home Page Example
multilinguism
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Simplify Standard list of objects
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Draft List of ObjectsUNESCO Portal

• Articles
• Audio
• Best Practices
• Books
• CDRom
• Celebrations
• Conferences
• Contacts (individuals)
• Discussions
• Documents
• Exhibitions
• Legal Instruments
• Meetings
• News

• Official Statements
• Other Events
• Other Multimedia
• Periodicals
• Photos
• Point of view
• Prizes
• Projects
• Questions/Answers
•   Strategy
•    Video
•    Websites

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Data entry FormObject Book
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Result Book published
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Metadata in SourceDublin Core
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Translations
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Translations

• Six official languages
• English, French , Spanish , Russian , Arabic ,
  Chinese
• Automatic translations
• Can only give rough translations
• Systran, Softissimo tested
• Human translations
• Multilingual team or outsourcing
• High costs , delays

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Example of a Discussion Forum
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Guidelines

• Graphics unique logo , minimum set ( delta )
• Ergonomics/Navigation
• Objects Common set for all subportals
• Same cataloging rules
• Keywords Unesco Thesaurus
• Thematic and geographic
• Trilingual Eng/Fre/Spa
• Editorial rules Style

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Becoming a member
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3)
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Services for members
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Portal Management

• Intersectoral Project 2002-2003
• Headquarters, Field Offices, Partners
• Infrastructure IT Division
• Conceptualization CI Sector
• Editorial aspects COM BureauContent ,Graphics,
  Presentation,Ergonomics
• Newly created post Web Editor in Chief ( March
  2002 )

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Team

• Architect functionnal and technical architecture
• System administrator
• Editor in Chief for the entire UNESCO Portal
• Webmaster,  Infographist , translators
• Sub-portal chief editors ( Education , Culture,
  Science , etc. )
• Webmaster ,
• Authors /Content providers , translators
• At and away from Head Quarters

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Portal Members Rights

• Unknown users
• Members ( login )
• Authors
• Translators
• Topic Editor
• Chief Editor
• Webmaster
• System Administrator

• Read only
• Read/suggest
• Provide Content
• Translate
• Edit/validate
• All editorial rights
• All application rights
• System rights

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Repositories

• XML Metadata Repository
• To federate data from various sources
• dynamic or static websites
• UNESCO or from partners
• LDAP Identity Repository
• Merging members directories
• Facilitating authentification

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XML Repository Model
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Example of XML Conversion and automatic
categorisation
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Code HTML Source
 

Source code
lthtmlgt
ltheadgt
ltMETA HTTP-EQUIVREFRESH CONTENT"2100"gt
lttitlegtGround-Breaking Free Press Declaration
made in Kabul UNESCO (2.55d pr)lt/titlegt
ltlink rel"schema.DC" href"http//purl.org/dc/el
ements/1.1/"gt
ltMETA NAME"DC.Source" CONTENT"UNESCO
Webworld"gt
ltMETA NAME"DC.Date" CONTENT"06/09/2002"gt
XML Conversion     lt?xml version'1.0'
encoding'ISO-8859-1'?gt ltdocument
id"/content/s_unesco5878"gt ltbasegts_unescolt/basegt
lthostgtportal0.unesco.orglt/hostgt lturlgtportal.unesco
.org/ev.php?URL_ID5878URL_DODO_TOPICURL_SECTIO
N201lt/urlgt ltcreatorugidgt1221lt/creatorugidgt ltdate_
publication_10000gt2002-09-06lt/date_publication_100
00gt ltdatecreatedgt1031325657lt/datecreatedgt ltdatemod
ifiedgt1031326669lt/datemodifiedgt ltdesclong_10000gtSp
eaking at the conclusion of the seminar that was
co-funded by UNESCO, the BBC, Internews and the
Baltic Media Centre, Deputy Minister of
Information and Culture, Mr. A.H. Mubarez, said
that the seminar opened a new chapter in free
press in this country. He said he was very proud
that the meeting took place at this sensitive
time in the countryaposs history.
ltMETA NAME"DC.Identifier" CONTENT"http//www.un
esco.org/webworld/news/2002/020906_afghanistan.sht
ml"gt
ltMETA NAME"keywords" CONTENT"tomoye"gt
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XML converted file with generated Keywords and
categories
Martin Hadlow, UNESCO Kabul Office
martin.hadlow_at_undpafg.org.pklt/desclong_10000gt ltdes
cshort_10000gtAn historic Declaration on the
future of the free press in Afghanistan was made
in Kabul yesterday. It was the culmination of a
three-day International Seminar on Promoting
Independent and Pluralistic Media in Afghanistan
(3rd-5th September) organised by the Ministry of
Information and Culture and UNESCO.lt/descshort_100
00gt ltname_10000gtGround-Breaking Free Press
Declaration made in Kabullt/name_10000gt lturl_10000
gthttp//www.unesco.org/webworld/news/2002/020906_a
fghanistan.shtmllt/url_10000gt ltcategorySetgt ltcate
gorygt7.15-Asia-and-the-Pacificlt/categorygt ltcatego
rygt5.20-Information-industrylt/categorygt ltcategory
gt5.05-Information-scienceslt/categorygt lt/categorySe
tgt ltkeywordSetgt ltkeywordgtAfghanistanlt/keywordgt lt
keywordgtPresslt/keywordgt ltkeywordgtBroadcastinglt/ke
ywordgt ltkeywordgtInformationlt/keywordgt lt/keywordSe
tgt lt/documentgt
Result of parsing with Unesco Thesaurus
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Search engines
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Audience Measures

• Heavy traffic
• 4 millions pages month
• 500 000 visiting sites
• 1.2 millions sessions
• More than 180 countries
• Log analyzer HTTP-analyze
• Caching effect
• Page markers Estats
• Online questionnaires

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Conclusions

• Pragmatic approach
• Modular steps
• Tools easy to integrate ( commercial or
  opensource)
• Standards ( XML LDAP)
• Teamwork various skills
• Editorial, Graphic, Linguistic, Informatics
• Promotion/Training
• Long term project ( 06/2001 )Slow migration
  of existing WebsCoexistence of static and
  dynamic pagesCross-searching / cross-referencing
  still an issue

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