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Building Sapienza web site
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Comitato editoriale webInstitutional Website Editorial Board
• Presidente: Mario Morcellini
• Direttore amministrativo o suo delegato: Carlo Musto D’Amore
• Delegato del Comitato InfoSapienza: Paolo Renzi
• Ufficio stampa e comunicazione: Alessandra Barberis
• Ripartizione Relazioni Internazionali: Antonella Cammisa
• Ufficio cerimoniale: Danny Cinalli
• Ripartizione Studenti: Emi Cipriano
• Ufficio valorizzazione ricerca scientifica: Sabrina Luccarini
• Ripartizione Personale: Augusto Pantaleoni
• Area InfoSapienza – Webmaster: Riccardo Tacconi
• Ufficio relazioni con il pubblico: Daniela Vingiani
D.R. 507 23.10.2009
How we worked
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Main results
• Guidelines about the new home page layout
(it/eng)
• Guidelines about the structure of the new
navigation menus (it/eng)
• Guidelines about the coordination between central
web site and web pages of faculties and
departments
• Final proposal
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Methods and tools
•Cooperative work (wiki)
•Working groups • home page it/eng
• navigation menu it/eng
• coordination central site/peripheric web pages
• maintenance of the existing site it/eng
•Periodical meetings
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Working steps (1)
• Step 1: benchmarking (Italian and international university
web sites) using a survey form
• Step 2: classification of different existing patterns about: • home page• navigation menu• coordination central site/peripheral structures web pages
• Step 3: interaction with ICT Division (InfoSapienza) for
technological aspects (Cms)
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Working steps (2)
• Step 4: analysis of best practices existing among
national and international web sites VS current
Sapienza web site (design, layout, menus structure,
information architecture)
• Step 5: editing of specific guidelines and delivery of
a final proposal
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Rebuilding the home page
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Home page (1)
Goals:
• To increase communicative power and emotional
impact
• To reduce cognitive complexity
• To comply with the generalist connotation of our
university (in the meaning of presence of a variety of
disciplines, taught and researched)
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Home page (2)
Choices:
• Prevalence of images and graphics, reduction of the
text component
• Whole Screen Horizontally Extended lay out
• Vertically Fixed lay out (to avoid the so called “below the line”)
• Explicit navigation map
The work on the navigation menu
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The Navigation menu
• Goal: to take into account the different audiences that
interact with the web site
• Proposal: to build navigation paths both for target users
and for functions
Work on the correlation between Central site and Peripheral sites (faculties, departments, etc)
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Central site and peripheral sites
• Analysis: a specific survey showed a great deal of heterogeneity in
content, style, and function.
Very often the contents do not respond to dictates (Italian law
expressly specify the compulsory contents of the PA web sites).
• Goals: to avoid compartmentalization, to promote correlation
between sites and to build consistent navigation paths
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Central site and peripheral sites: final proposal (1)
To build a ready format for the new sites of faculties that must
contain:
- a CMS system with a pre - designed layout (but with
customizable elements)
- Course catalogue
- Correlation between courses and professors
- Information about exams
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Central site and peripheral sites: final proposal (2)
In addition to the above mentioned elements other functions
could be added to manage:
- News
- Lessons timetable
- Thesis assignment
- External training
- Etc.
Final proposals
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How to proceed: final operational proposal
The Web Editorial Board:
• has indicated the Cineca (an interuniversity consortium) as
the most appropriate technical partner to carry out the project
• has suggested to proceed with an internal call to search for
professional resources in order to create a coordinated
working group
• has asked to identify one or more mother toungue editors /
translators for deployment and update of the English version
of the web site
Partnership with Cineca and implementation of the new web portal
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Cineca methodology (1)
In order to achieve the best user experience and to meet the strategic, communication and service objectives, Cineca has developed a methodology called UXlab, consisting of:
• User-Centered Design (UCD)• participatory planning
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Cineca methodology (2)
This approach consists of:
- Involvement of stakeholders and key users- specific interviews and user research activities
The main phases of this methodology are:
1. understanding and specifying the context of use
2. clarifying both the users and the organizational requirements
3. producing solutions
4. evaluating the designed solutions
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