1. 1-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Système Euro- Méditerranéen dinformation sur les savoir-faire dans le domaine de lEau Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know how in the water sector SEMIDE EMWIS EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP EMWIS web portal technology Seminar introduction Eric Mino EMWIS Technical Unit http://www.semide.org http://www.emwis.org النظام الأورو - متوسطي للإعلام حول المعرفة في ميدان المياه

2. 2-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Logistic / Logistique Working languages: English We are here to reply to ALL your questions Boarding pass + Flight tickets Participants list to be signed every day Assessment questionnaire Social event: Dinner on Thursday night Complementary perdiem for Med Partner Countries Lunch: buffet at the Mediatel From the hotel To the hotel

3. 3-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Targets and objectives of the seminar EMWIS Technical Unit staff Portal management: users, content, back-up, etc. Extension Advanced administration Future managers of a web portal based on Nayaa Installation using the toolkit (optional) Customisation Administration and content development Organisations willing to exchange information within EMWIS Main collaboration features Syndication, Remote sites indexing Organisations willing to learn about this technology for potential use Main features Friendliness All the training material is availabe online at Vague.eurecom.fr

4. 4-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Agenda overview Introducing the web portal technology: NAYAA Publishing workflow Multilinguality Customising the portal layout Portlets Collaboration features: syndication and harvesting of content Glossaries and Thesaurus Portal management Notification and e-Flash Toolkit update and maintenance

5. 5-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Seminar background Overall status of EMWIS The new web portal within the EMWIS second phase

6. 6-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Main EMWIS milestones Nov96 – Decision to initiate Euromed water cooperation by the exchange of information (Ministerial conference) Dec96 – Dec97 EMWIS feasibility study Dec. 1997 – Decision of Euro-Med water directors to implement EMWIS July 1998 – Creation of the EEIG EMWIS TU July 1999 – EC grant signature for Phase 1 Nov. 1999 – T.U. operational Nov. 2001 – Phase 2 strategic plan approved by Euro-Med water directors Dec. 2002 - End of phase 1 Dec. 2003 - EC grant signature for Phase 2 (Dec. 2003 – Nov. 2006) Nov. 2005 – Validation of achievements and 10 years strategy by Euromed Water Directors …..

7. 7-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Action Plan 2007-2010

8. 8-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 EMWIS next steps Strategy validated by EuroMed WD Working groups for transfer of know-how under preparation First draft proposal provided to AidCo (2007-2010) Written support from Water Directors: LB, CY, MA, TR, IL, TN Willingness from France, Spain and Italy to fund the next phase Missing steps Evaluation AidCo call for tenders (or other procedure) Current contract extension under negotiation (till Nov07)

9. 9-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Second phase: enhancing and consolidating the achievements (Dec. 2003 - Nov. 2006) Maintaining a strong co-ordination with political structures Reinforcing the NFPs Expansion and development of services Review of the technical architecture (XML based) Operating information existing services Fostering the promotion of the system Development of topical activities Information clearing house for International actions: E.C. MEDA – Water programme MED component of the EU water initiative Liaison with international initiatives Incl. Analysing the set-up of a WaterML initiative to harmonise information exchange

10. 10-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 4. Review of the technical architecture Overview Improving flexibility: Publication of same content on several web sites Better integration of heterogeneous resources Better decentralised management of content Common structures for content using XML Main components agreed with NFP: Common meta-data Multilingual Water Thesaurus Overall technical architecture Setting-up a new technological platform for the Technical Unit

11. 11-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 4. Review of the technical architecture Status Selection of a provider based on a service call for tenders Invitation to tender sent in June 2005 to 18 applicants 4 applications received Contract started with FINSIEL in Sept05 New technological platform for the TU Web Content Management System developed for the European Environment Agency also used by the SMAP-RMSU (clearing house) Open Source software The solution includes a web portal builder for NFP or other organisations The portal is multilingual: Arabic, English and French. But open to other languages

12. 12-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 New / past services Thematic water directory: « who does what » per topic and per country Same application integrated in the new platform Information search tools through all National websites Restricted to portal using the same technology or with XML- RPC Multilingual search engine on distributed bibliographical databases Using multlingual thesaurus Based on metadata (e.g. OAI) Mailing lists and e-FlashIntegrated with semi-automatic edition of e-Flash Thematic electronic foraNew technology Statistics (using webtrends)Standard web log files generated

13. 13-Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit3-Jun-14 Comments and Questions