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- Provide general information about the IDI, its resources and infrastructure, and its research clusters.
- Allow an IDI member to request, book, use, and return an IDI resource.
- Facilitate project collaboration in a space where knowledge can be shared, such as by and encourage collaboration between IDI members and interested parties (allowing for knowledge sharing with discussions, documents, media, and discussionsetc.).
Audience
The website will be designed to appeal to a broad audience across demographics and disciplines. The spectrum of users to be addressed are:
Participating IDI member (High Priority)
- Associated with a partner institution and familiar with the IDI related project they are working on.
- Already has an understanding of the IDI.
- Seeking a platform to share knowledge and articulate the work they are doing.
- Perhaps will use the IDI website as a facility to do some collaborative work.
- Will want to book facilities/equipment, and keep in touch with IDI activities
Person unfamiliar with the IDI looking to get informed
- Looking for general information about the IDI, projects, and what the IDI does.
- May want to keep in touch with IDI activities
Interested person seeking knowledge and engagement
- Some familiarity with the IDI, and seeking to find specific information on projects.
- May look to take next steps: deeper knowledge on a particular project, communication with the community, or contacting a project/cluster member.
- My want to keep in touch with IDI activities
Functions
- Share knowledge on ongoing research and ideas in the form of documents, media, and organic conversation. (High Priority)
- Create and edit periodic content like blogs, news, and project updates.
- Search and view IDI resources like facilities and equipment.
- Request, book, use, and return IDI resources.
- Create and edit static content (i.e. About pages, contact information, etc.)Request, book, use, and return IDI resources.
- Contact IDI cluster leads and IDI administration.
- Search shared knowledge and conversations.
- View, and search a directory of users, partners, and organizations involved / related to the IDI.
- Manage and view a calendar on different levels: IDI as a whole, research clusters, projects, and individuals.
Possible Technology
1. CMS
- accessible
- transformable content (to use with UI options)
- customizable markup and appearance
- Besides providing the content backbone for the site, it will need to handle news items (in a blogesque manner) and Twitter feeds
2. Calendering system
- Publicly viewable calendars for events, and equipment/spaces
- Member-editable
3. Booking system
- View inventory and availability of equipment and spaces
- Provide images, video of the equipment
- Maps / directions
- Booking of equipment and spaces (+ reminders of nearly/overdue equipment, cancellations, location information, etc.)
- Integration with calendering system (low priority)
4. Wiki
- accessible
- transformable content (to use with UI options)
- customizable markup and appearance
- page-level privleges (restrict editing to a subset of users)
- commenting system:
- anonymous posting
- moderation ability
- comment flagging / reporting
- rich content in comments (images, video, links)
- page grouping / categorization
- virtual wiki spaces
5. Mailing list
- integration with user account on website CMS (low priority)
Reference
The above content is gathered based on the following documents:
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