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SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

THEME ICT-2013.5.4

"ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling"

D6.3:

CONSENSUS Web Page

Project acronym: CONSENSUS

Project full title: Multi-Objective Decision Making Tools through Citizen Engagement

Contract no.: 611688

Workpackage:

Editor: Nikos Dimakopoulos ATC

Author(s): Nikos Dimakopoulos, Anna Triantafillou ATC

Authorized by Anna Triantafillou ATC

Reviewer Konstantinos Tserpes ICCS

Dissemination Level Public

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© All Rights Reserved

Consensus Output/Deliverable D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 2 of 27

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement no. 611688

CONSENSUS Consortium

No Name Short name Country

1 Institute of Communication and Computer

Systems/National Technical University of Athens

NTUA Greece

2 IBM Israel Science and Technology Ltd. IBM Israel

3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IIASA Austria

4 Athens Technology Center ATC Greece

5 University of Konstanz UKON Germany

6 OXFAM Italia ONLUS OXFAM Italy

7 WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature WWF Switzerland

8 European Union Road Federation ERF Belgium

Document History

Version Date Changes Author/Affiliation

V0.1 21/10/2013 1s draft

Nikos

Dimakopoulos/ATC

V0.2 11/11/2013 2nd

draft Anna Triantafillou/ATC

V0.3 29/11/2013 3

rd draft / website publicly

available

Nikos Dimakopoulos,

Anna Triantafillou

/ATC

V0.4 24/12/2013 4

th draft including changes in

chapter 3

Nikos Dimakopoulos

/ATC

V1.0 27/12/2013 Final version of the document Anna Triantafillou /

ATC

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Executive Summary

This deliverable, D6.3 The CONSENSUS Website, presents the functionality of the official

website of the CONSENSUS project. The document describes the infrastructure of the

CONSENSUS website as well as presents the publicly and partner’s accessible area of the

site.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................... 3

1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 6

2 WEBSITE INFRASTRUCTURE .................................................................................. 6

2.1 URL .......................................................................................................................................... 6

2.2 WEBSITE ARCHITECTURE ............................................................................................................... 6

2.3 OTHER ISSUES ............................................................................................................................. 7

2.3.1 Hosting ................................................................................................................................ 7

2.3.2 Site statistics ....................................................................................................................... 7

2.3.3 Compatibility with Browsers ............................................................................................... 7

3 WEBSITE DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................ 7

3.1 PUBLIC ACCESS AREA .................................................................................................................... 7

3.2 PRIVATE ACCESS AREA ................................................................................................................ 24

4 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................ 27

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1 : CONSENSUS website map ......................................................................................... 9

Figure 2 - Snapshot of the CONSENSUS home page ............................................................... 10

Figure 3 – Snapshot of the “Rational” page ............................................................................ 11

Figure 4 - Snapshot of the “Objectives” page ......................................................................... 12

Figure 5 - Snapshot of the “Approach” page ........................................................................... 13

Figure 6 - Snapshot of the “Consortium” page ....................................................................... 14

Figure 7 - Snapshot of the “Links” page .................................................................................. 15

Figure 8 - Snapshot of the “Use Cases” page .......................................................................... 16

Figure 9 - Snapshot of the “Results” page ............................................................................... 17

Figure 10 - Snapshot of the “Impact” page ............................................................................. 18

Figure 11 - Snapshot of the “Publications” page ..................................................................... 19

Figure 12 - Snapshot of the public “Deliverables” page .......................................................... 20

Figure 13 - Snapshot of the “Material” page........................................................................... 21

Figure 14 - Snapshot of the “News” page ............................................................................... 22

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Figure 15: Snapshot of the extra features of the CONSENSUS home page ............................ 23

Figure 16: Snapshot of the CONSENSUS Private Area ............................................................. 25

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Deliverable: D6.3 Consensus Web Page Page 6 of 27

1 Introduction The purpose of deliverable D6.3 is to set up the CONSENSUS website which will serve as a

collaboration tool for knowledge, experience and best practice sharing, as well as results

consolidation and dissemination support.

The CONSENSUS website will provide all related information about the CONSENSUS project,

such as scope, objectives, approach, target and results.

The website, which will be publicly available, is foreseen to incrementally provide project

information and achievements and stimulate contacts with other users.

In Section 2 follows a description of the website infrastructure. More specifically, the

website architecture is presented and the features regarding the underlying platform are

described.

Section 3 provides the website description. More specifically, different snapshots of the

public website pages are given. Moreover, the features and description of the internal

partner area are presented.

Finally, Section 4 concludes this deliverable.

2 Website Infrastructure

2.1 URL The CONSENSUS consortium has acquired the following URL which will be used by Internet

users for accessing the CONSENSUS website and the platform as well.

http://www.CONSENSUS-project.eu

Since December 1st, 2013 the site is publicly available.

2.2 Website Architecture The project’s website will consist of two discrete access controlled areas:

a public area where the public will be able to gather information regarding the

project, download the project’s publicly available material (like accepted

deliverable, brochures and other informative documents or publications) and to

find information about contacting the project’s partners, and

a private area, where only the CONSENSUS partners will have access and will be

used as a tool for the exchange of documents.

The underlying platform is Drupal (https://drupal.org/) which is a free software package that

allows easily organizing, managing and publishing content, with an endless variety of

customization. Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of

630,000+ users and developers. It's distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public

http://www.consensus-project.eu/

https://drupal.org/

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License (or "GPL"), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others. This

open development model means that people are constantly working to make sure Drupal is

a cutting-edge platform that supports the latest technologies that the Web has to offer. The

Drupal project's principles encourage modularity, standards, collaboration, ease-of-use, and

more.

2.3 Other issues

2.3.1 Hosting

The whole platform is hosted in ATC premise in Greece. The servers (Windows Server) used

for hosting guarantee the 24/7 operation of the platform, as they are capable of handling

high load and operate on a 50Mbps connection to the Internet.

Backups of the system are taken on a standard daily basis in order for the system to be able

to recover in case of a failure.

2.3.2 Site statistics

The statistics regarding the visitors of the website are constantly recorded and stored, using

the Google Analytics1 tool kit so that consortium members can anytime have access to the

history logs and be able to extract useful information about the website operation based on

those statistics.

2.3.3 Compatibility with Browsers

The website is compatible with the following web browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or higher

Apple Safari 3.0 or higher

Google Chrome

3 Website Description

3.1 Public Access Area The structure of the CONSENSUS website consists of the following web pages:

Homepage

Project

o CONSENSUS Rational

o Objectives

1 www.google.com/analytics

http://www.google.com/analytics

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o Approach

Community

o Consortium

o Links

Outcomes

o Use Cases

o Results

o Impact

Downloads

o Publications

o Deliverables

o Material

News

The above structure with the additional texts blocks of the website is depicted in the following website-map (Figure 1).

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WELCOME Page

CONSENSUS Vision

Project (Menu item) – no content

Downloads (Menu item) – no content Private Area

Objectives

Approach

Community (Menu item) – no content

Consortium

Links

Publications

Deliverables

Material

Project Repository

About Us

Follow Us

Get In Touch

Outcomes (Menu item) – no content

Use Cases

Results

CONSENSUS

Challenges

Users’ Testimonials

Welcome Message

Slider & Slogans

Use Case: Biofuels &

Climate Change (short

text) linked to the related

page

Use Case: Transportation

Networks(short text)

linked to the related page

CONSENSUS Vision (short

text) linked to the related

page

News

Use Cases: Biofuels

& Climate Change

Use Case:

Transportation

Networks

Impact

Figure 1 : CONSENSUS website map

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The following sections provide an overview of the project website including snapshots and

short descriptions per webpage.

Home Page

The home page provides a welcome message to the project’s website. It also provides a

short overview and links to the project rational and pilot Use Cases, access to the latest

news and twitter updates. A contact form as well as a Get in Touch section is also included.

The following figure shows a screenshot of the Home page.

Figure 2 - Snapshot of the CONSENSUS home page

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Project

The project rational, objectives and approach are presented in the relevant webpages.

CONCENSUS Rational webpage, as depicted in the Figure 3, gives information about the

Rational of the project. Users’ Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links

to the project use cases are also provided.

Figure 3 – Snapshot of the “Rational” page

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Objectives webpage, as presented in the Figure 4 (Snapshot of the “Objectives” page),

presents the Objectives of the project. Users’ Testimonials regarding project expected

results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided.

Figure 4 - Snapshot of the “Objectives” page

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Approach webpage, as presented in the Figure 5 (Snapshot of the “Approach” page) gives

information about the project’s methodology. Users’ Testimonials regarding expected


Figure 5 - Snapshot of the “Approach” page

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Community

The project consortium and relevant links to the project are presented in the relevant

webpages.

Consortium webpage, Figure 6 (Snapshot of the “Consortium” page), presents the project

partners and provides links to their official websites.

Figure 6 - Snapshot of the “Consortium” page

Links webpage, as presented in Figure 7 (Snapshot of the “Consortium” page), provides a list

of relevant links to the project such as other research projects in the field of ICT for Policy

modeling. Users’ Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the

project use cases are also provided.

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Figure 7 - Snapshot of the “Links” page

Project Outcomes

The pilot use cases, the (expected) project results as well as the (expected) impact are

presented in the relevant webpages.

Use Cases webpage, as presented in the Figure 8 - Snapshot of the “Use Cases”

page(Snapshot of the “Use Cases” page), gives relevant information for the project pilot use

cases, the “Transportation Networks” & “Biofuels & Climate Change”. The webpages will be

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updated throughout the project period including relevant information about the progress of

the project pilots as well as the related outcomes.

Figure 8 - Snapshot of the “Use Cases” page

Results webpage, as depicted in the Figure 9 - Snapshot of the “Results” page(Snapshot of

the “Results” page) presents the expected results of the project. Users’ Testimonials

regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided.

The webpage will be continuously updated in order to provide relevant information to the

project progress and related results.

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Figure 9 - Snapshot of the “Results” page

Impact webpage, as presented in the Figure 10 (Snapshot of the “Impact” page), gives an

overview of the project’s target Outcomes and Expected Impact. Users’ Testimonials

regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are also provided.

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Figure 10 - Snapshot of the “Impact” page

Downloads

The project publications, deliverables as well as dissemination materials will be available

through the relevant webpages.

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Publications webpage, as presented in the Figure 11 (Snapshot of the “Publications” page),

provides access to the project publications that will be uploaded throughout the project

period. Users’ Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project

use cases are also provided.

Figure 11 - Snapshot of the “Publications” page

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Deliverables webpage, as presented in the Figure 12 (Snapshot of the public “Deliverables”

page) provides a list of all delivered public reports / deliverables of the Project. Users’

Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use cases are

also provided.

Figure 12 - Snapshot of the public “Deliverables” page

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Material webpage, as depicted in the Figure 13 (Snapshot of the “Material” page), provides

a list of the promotional project materials that will be produced during the project period.

Users’ Testimonials regarding project expected results as well as links to the project use

cases are also provided.

Figure 13 - Snapshot of the “Material” page

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News

The project news as well as related blogs will be available through the relevant webpages.

News webpage, as presented in the Figure 14 (Snapshot of the “News” page), provides

access to the latest project’s news and blogs. Users’ Testimonials regarding project expected


Figure 14 - Snapshot of the “News” page

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Additional Features

The CONSENSUS website has the following additional features as presented also in the

Figure 15: Snapshot of the extra features of the CONSENSUS ):

• LinkedIn and Twitter channels;

• The Contact Us form;

• CONSENSUS “Twitter Updates” and “Latest News”

• Taxonomy tags per page text

• The “Private Area” option

• “Back to Top” button

Figure 15: Snapshot of the extra features of the CONSENSUS site

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3.2 Private Access Area The internal “Partners Area” of the CONSENSUS project is the project repository that all

relevant project documentation is stored centrally. It is also used for exchanging

information among members of the CONSENSUS consortium and for the EU Commission.

The private Area of the CONSENSUS website consists of various components. When working

together these components offer all the functionality required for the private area. The

components that are used are:

HTML Module

Documents (with version control) module

Drupal user permissions

The user permissions functionality grants access to the private area only to users that have

been verified by the website administrators.

The HTML module gives all the navigation information needed to the user allowing him to

easily navigate the private area.

The Documents module takes care of the hosting/upload/management of the Documents

that are uploaded to the repository. It also protects the documents from non-verified users.

The following figure gives a snapshot of the CONSENSUS private area.

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Figure 16: Snapshot of the CONSENSUS Private Area

CONSENSUS partners have access to this area and can “push and pull” information regarding

the followings:

Project Information – access to general project information, such as description of work, contact list.

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Project Meetings – access to information about project meetings, such as agenda, presentations, minutes.

Project Deliverables – access to the project deliverables.

Project WPs – access to supportive material and document per WP.

Administrative Issues – access to related administrative issues, such as CONSENSUS contractual documents.

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4 Conclusions This Deliverable, D6.3 Project Website is part of the WP6 Dissemination and Exploitation and

provided information regarding the design and implementation of the project website. The

CONSENSUS website is publicly available since the early stage of the project (1st December,

2013) and is an important dissemination channel, for the project results and spreading the

CONSENSUS knowledge to wide audiences.

The CONSENSUS website will be continuously maintained and updated.

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