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1-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit 10 Apr 2023

Système Euro-Méditerranéen

d’information sur les savoir-faire dans le domaine de l’Eau

Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know how in the

water sector

SEMIDE

EMWIS

EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP

EMWIS web portal technologySeminar introduction

Eric MinoEMWIS Technical Unit

http://www.semide.org http://www.emwis.org

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Logistic / LogistiqueWorking languages:

EnglishWe are here to reply to

ALL your questions

Boarding pass + Flight tickets

Participants list to be signed every day

Assessment questionnaire

Social event: Dinner on Thursday night

Complementary perdiem for Med Partner Countries

Lunch: buffetat the Mediatel

From the hotel To the hotel


Targets and objectives of the seminar

EMWIS Technical Unit staff Portal management: users, content, back-up, etc.

Extension

Advanced administration

Future managers of a web portal based on Nayaa Installation using the toolkit (optional)

Customisation

Administration and content development

Organisations willing to exchange information within EMWIS Main collaboration features

Syndication,

Remote sites indexing

Organisations willing to learn about this technology for potential use Main features

Friendliness

All the training material is availabe online atVague.eurecom.fr


Agenda overview

Introducing the web portal technology: NAYAA Publishing workflow Multilinguality Customising the portal layout Portlets Collaboration features: syndication and harvesting of content Glossaries and Thesaurus Portal management Notification and e-Flash Toolkit update and maintenance


Seminar background

Overall status of EMWISThe new web portal within the EMWIS

second phase


Main EMWIS milestones

Nov’96 – Decision to initiate Euromed water cooperation by the exchange of information (Ministerial conference)

Dec’96 – Dec’97 EMWIS feasibility study

Dec. 1997 – Decision of Euro-Med water directors to implement EMWIS

July 1998 – Creation of the EEIG EMWIS TU

July 1999 – EC grant signature for Phase 1

Nov. 1999 – T.U. operational

Nov. 2001 – Phase 2 strategic plan approved by Euro-Med water directors

Dec. 2002 - End of phase 1

Dec. 2003 - EC grant signature for Phase 2 (Dec. 2003 – Nov. 2006)

Nov. 2005 – Validation of achievements and 10 years strategy by Euromed Water Directors

…..


Action Plan 2007-2010

Extreme phenomena

sanitation & domestic pollution

National water information

Systems

Public Regional and National water information services

Regional and National water observation mechanism

Euro-Med Water Directors forum

Participative approaches

Transfer of know-how

Non conventional water resources


EMWIS next steps

Strategy validated by EuroMed WD Working groups for transfer of know-how under preparation First draft proposal provided to AidCo (2007-2010) Written support from Water Directors: LB, CY, MA, TR, IL, TN Willingness from France, Spain and Italy to fund the next phase

Missing steps Evaluation AidCo call for tenders (or other procedure)

Current contract extension under negotiation (till Nov’07)


Second phase: enhancing and consolidating the achievements

(Dec. 2003 - Nov. 2006)1. Maintaining a strong co-ordination with political structures

2. Reinforcing the NFPs

3. Expansion and development of services

4. Review of the technical architecture (XML based)

5. Operating information existing services

6. Fostering the promotion of the system

7. Development of topical activities

8. Information clearing house for International actions:1. E.C. MEDA – Water programme

2. MED component of the EU water initiative

9. Liaison with international initiativesIncl. Analysing the set-up of a WaterML initiative to harmonise information

exchange


4. Review of the technical architecture

OverviewImproving flexibility:

Publication of same content on several web sitesBetter integration of heterogeneous resourcesBetter decentralised management of contentCommon structures for content using XML

Main components agreed with NFP: Common meta-data Multilingual Water Thesaurus Overall technical architecture

Setting-up a new technological platform for the Technical Unit


4. Review of the technical architecture

Status Selection of a provider based on a service call for tenders

Invitation to tender sent in June 2005 to 18 applicants 4 applications received Contract started with FINSIEL in Sept’05

New technological platform for the TU Web Content Management System developed for the European

Environment Agency also used by the SMAP-RMSU (clearing house) Open Source software The solution includes a web portal builder for NFP or other organisations The portal is multilingual: Arabic, English and French. But open to other

languages


New / past services

Thematic water directory: « who does what » per topic and per country

Same application integrated in the new platform

Information search tools through all National websites

Restricted to portal using the same technology or with XML-RPC

Multilingual search engine on distributed bibliographical databases

Using multlingual thesaurus

Based on metadata (e.g. OAI)

Mailing lists and e-Flash Integrated with semi-automatic edition of e-Flash

Thematic electronic fora New technology

Statistics (using webtrends) Standard web log files generated


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