Recently @owen finalized the webkit and now @alberto and I are testing it to create the website for the Research Network.
The aim of this website is to present what we offer to potential partners when it comes to research projects, namely for Horizon2020 programme (but not only). This will come in handy when approaching to the potential partners who didn’t work with us before and who might not know much about what we do. The challenge is to showcase what we have in terms of methodology, tools, past and current projects in a very structured and clear way and at the same time make it interesting enough to facilitate establishing new partnerships.
For this reason, the idea was to have a few sections with very short texts, adding some videos and links for those who want to know more.
made a small edit to the text. i think the research bit needs to be complemented with a bit on “impact” or what cqme out of it. Opencare - openrampette and brokered beginning of discussion between openinsulin and ciry of milab re setting up microbrewery for insulin…
NGI forward, already contributed to that parliament proposal for ec to put to vote. its described in comment at bottom of post on new principles of justice
I agree. If we want to avoid adding a lot of text, what do you think would be the best way to address the impact? Maybe pointing to some of the threads on the platform or showing them in a box like here under “browse stories”?
@marina I meant to ask you to seek feedback from people in the research space. The question is whether someone who does not know us finds this website a useful introduction. Our own people know us too well to be a useful source of feedback.
It’s a good point, but telling two of these stories will double the amount of text of the whole website.
It is just meant as a conversation opener, probably browsed by some hurried Uni person who needs a partner and has neither the time nor the interest to care about any “impact” beyond the publishing of papers.
Added. But please, resist the temptation to add any more. Of course you can always add, but you lose clarity for the casual onlooker, the only one that counts.
It’s a good start! I won’t comment on the content as it’s a little beyond my scope, but a couple of things regarding presentation and layout:
styling with variables in the configuration, especially in JSON, is limiting for anyone unless you have the time/patience to tinker with all the elements
we’ll be using theme files now to differentiate the ‘look and feel’ of each site. This means less tinkering and more focus on the content, so https://live.edgeryders.eu uses a standard theme, and Edgeryders uses another ‘Campaigns’ theme. the default theme could look better, and should.
An update to the sandbox will be coming so you’ll be able to switch and preview different themes available for the site. we can discuss the specific look for the RezNet site and similar research network sites if a custom theme is needed.
We can continue to use the JSON configuration here, but the syntax used for the campaigns site is I think more intuitive. It uses an HTML like syntax along with markdown: https://edgeryders.eu/raw/13810
Adding inline styles (like changing a font or text color) is easier with this type of syntax, as you’re not nesting long lists of style properties inside the configuration
Alberto where are you sending people?
e.g opencare.cc is not really being maintained and we don’t know if it will be around from one day to the next. So I made our own
