Centralised Websiteswith Decentralised

AuthorsUniversiteit Leiden

ICS Web Communication / InfraAdriaan M. Bloem, Project Manager

Universiteit Leiden

Founded in 1575 Currently 17.251 Students Staff of 3.935 People Number 58 Position in “The World's Top

100 Science Universities”, The Times Higher Education Supplement

ICS Web Communication

Department Web Communicationof Expertise Centre ICS

PAUW Programme: Target Audiences & Content Navigation & Design Organisation Infrastructure

Scope

All Web Content in the “leidenuniv.nl” and “leiden.edu” domains, with the Exception of

Content other than “Traditional” Web Content; DAM, LCMSE.g., Blackboard, D-space, Hive, ActiveMedia, blogs, wiki’s…

Information Systems with Web InterfacesE.g., U-Twist, ZRS, ISIS, SAP, …

Getting the General Idea

VISI TOR

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Visitor Navigation

Visitor Behaviour – If we believe this:

MixedLink DominantSearch Dominant

Source:Jakob Nielsen,"DesigningWeb Usability"

University Homepage?

Search Results

1.630.000 pages

361.000 pages

380.000 pages

According to…

Define Target Audiences

TARGET GROUP A TARGET GROUP B TARGET GROUP C TARGET GROUP D

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“Ask not what

you can do

for your website…

Ask what

your visitorwants from you!”

John F. Kennedy

Organise Sites in Themes

VISI TOR

Utopia of Content Management

Institute for Law of Sanskrit-Speaking Parrots

Producing Content

EDI TOR

StudentsVISI TOR

Looking for Content

VISI TOR

EDI TOR

Paradox

Faculty of LawSanskrit

Parrots

University

VISI TOR

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Re-use of Content

Faculty of LawSanskrit

Parrots

University

Fixing the Plumbing

Current CMS: Statistics

496 Separate Websites33.424 Unique Pages4.448 User Accounts

496 Separate Instances of the CMS

Structure: Present

Publications Within 1 Instance of the CMS

Structure: Present and Future

Structure: PresentContent Flow

EDI TOR

CHIEF EDI TOR

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News Info Events

Structured Decentralised Sites

EDI TOR

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Categorise Structured Items

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Title

Paragraph Text

Paragraph Title

Abstract

Paragraph Text

Paragraph Title

GLOBALCONTENT

LANGUAGEA

LANGUAGEB

OU SITE OU SITE OU SITE

THEMEA

HOMEPAGELANGUAGE A

THEMEB

THEMEC

Inheritance

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Research

CHIEF EDI TOR

Group Items in Themes

Inherited Content

EDI TOR

TARGET GROUP A

TARGET GROUP B

TARGET GROUP C

TARGET GROUP D

TARGET GROUP E

CHIEF EDI TO

Overview of Resulting Process

OrganisationalUnit Website

DecentralisedOrganisational

Chapters

OUTheme

Chapters

TargetedWebsites

UniversityHomepage

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