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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