European Space Weather Portal
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European Space Weather Portal
The European gateway to Space Weather resources
History of the Portal
Portal was developed in the framework of the COST724 action
BISA has installed Drupal CMS. People involved were
Koen Stegen – Administration & databases(2006 – Februari 2007)
Jan Wera – Administration & applications(2006 – Februari 2007)
Bart Declercq – Webmaster(Februari – June 2007)
Problems from the Past
The glossary: the system added links to glossary terms in other pages but the link would take the user to the first term in the glossary instead of the correct one.
The navigation menu: when using the portal navigation menu, sometimes the user got a search box when clicking on a random menu item instead of the page associated with the menu item.
Solution
Finding out what was needed to fix the problems at hand and implement solutions would have taken a lot of time.
Installing a new system from scratch has taken less time than solving the problems.
Result: new Drupal installation (version 5.7 vs 5.2 on spaceweather.eu) where everything works as it's supposed to with additional content and a new look.
http://gauss.oma.be/ESWEPNEW
Improvements
New and improved graphical design Better navigation: the menu’s are now only
2 levels deep Additional content (MIM software, new
translations in different languages, ... ) Newsletter
MIM Software
Menu and Newsletter
Translations
Future Improvements
Event organizing possibilities Forum Automatic translations Dictionary Improved menu's Automatically generated downloadable
PDF's
Multilingual Issues
Due to the fact that some languages use other characters it takes more time to add translations in such languages to the portal.
Example: when we received the Space Weather definition translations in a Powerpoint presentation, there was an image for translations in Armenian and Japanese. It is impossible to just copy paste these translations and add them to the site.
Changes Requested
Add Austrian flag Done Put up the correct flag for Serbia Done Add Jean's book Done Add Slovenian translation of the
introduction Done Add translations for the definition of Space
Weather Done Add Hebrew translation of the introduction
Todo
Books
Model Access
Artwork
Data Access
Final Words
System needed to be re-installed and the content manually ported
Now there is a new and improved system Still needs in-depth testing New system still needs to be tailored to the
expectations of the users. Comments welcome
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