European Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (DG EMPL) Migration of the

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European Commission Directorate General for
Employment, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities (DG EMPL)Migration of the
Publications Web Site

• Yves Garsou (Project Manager)

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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.

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Purpose of the project

• DG EMPL required the upgrade of the
  Publications section of its web site
• http//ec.europa.eu/employment_social/emplweb/publ
  ications/index_en.cfm

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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 EUROPAs IPG guidelines

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Migration project

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

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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)

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WCMS
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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

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Web Design

• Publication banner
• Blue theme
• DG EMPL logo
• Publication Look Feel
• Europa Look Feel

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Migration project

• Previous sub-site publication
• Social Agenda Pages
• Brochure Pages
• Information Pages
• Register Pages

• Migration
• WCMS constraints
• IPG rules
• Existing content
• New content

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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

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Extraction process (2/2)

• Social agenda PDF?HTML
• Extraction of articles
• Insertion of metadata
• Extraction of images
• Pagination

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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

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Development process

• Specific XSL template
• Specific CSS
• Specific requirement  increase/decrease 
  button
• Linkgroup
• Menu
• External/internal links
• Social agenda
• Brochures

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New publication site
Homepage static pages

• Publication banner
• Left block menu
• RSS news
• Right block
• Latest contents
• Links
• Increase/decrease

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New publication site

• Social agenda list
• Quick search
• Advanced search
• Year classification
• Picture
• Abstract

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New publication site

• Social agenda
• Link to DG EMPL
• web site
• Link to PDF files
• Link to allarticles

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New publication site

• Search
• Social Agenda
• Full-text
• Keywords
• Date

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New publication site

• Brochures
• Theme classification
• Year classification

• Link to DG EMPL website
• Link to PDF file
• Link to EU Bookshop

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New publication site

• RSS News
• Extracted from DG EMPL RSS feed
• Access to DG EMPL news page

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New publication site

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

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New publication site

• Links blocks
• Display links depending on the displayed page
  (contextual)

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Next steps

• Maintenance
• New features
• Change requests
• DG EMPL whole site or other sub-sites

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

• Yves Garsou (Project Manager)