Building Sapienza web site
Comitato editoriale web
Institutional Website Editorial Board
D.R. 507 23.10.2009
• 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
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How we worked
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
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
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The work on the navigation menu
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
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Work on the correlation between
Central site and Peripheral sites (faculties,
departments, etc)
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.
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Final proposals
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
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Partnership with Cineca and
implementation of the new web portal
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:
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Involvement of stakeholders and key users
specific interviews and user research activities
The main phases of this methodology are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
understanding and specifying the context of use
clarifying both the users and the organizational requirements
producing solutions
evaluating the designed solutions
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Earlier versions of www.uniroma1.it
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2011: www.uniroma1.it
2006
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