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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)
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
• http://ec.europa.eu/
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
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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
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Publication banner
Blue theme
DG EMPL logo
Publication Look &
Feel
• Europa Look & Feel
Migration project
Previous sub-site publication
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Social Agenda Pages
Brochure Pages
Information Pages
Register Pages
Migration
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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
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Menu
External/internal links
Social agenda
Brochures
New publication site
Homepage
& static pages
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Publication banner
Left block menu
RSS news
Right block
• Latest contents
• Links
• Increase/decrease
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
Thank you for your attention
Questions ?
European Commission
Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities (DG EMPL)
Migration of the “Publications” Web Site
Yves Garsou (Project Manager)