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IPEX - The next version

ECPRD ICT seminar, 17-20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX – The next version

A preview of ongoing work

to redesign the IPEX website

Jerry HilbertEuropean Parliament, DG ITEC (DIT)



IPEX is

An EU inter-parliamentary network of correspondents to exchange information on legislation and policies

A comprehensive website to support this exchange of information (www.ipex.eu)

A reference site for national parliaments to publish and share their results of EU related parliamentary scrutiny, as well as on issues related to subsidiarity

INTRODUCTION



Why IPEX

Cope with the growing relevance of EU information exchange among parliaments

Facilitate and improve exchange of parliamentary scrutiny, especially in national parliaments

Increase transparency of EU decision making

INTRODUCTION



Statistics of pages added

INTRODUCTION

IPEX (Pages)

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Homepage

CURRENT SITE



Legislative dossier – Dossier page

CURRENT SITE



Legislative dossier – Scrutiny page

CURRENT SITE



2009 -2010

May 2009: Annual Correspondents meeting 2009 suggested enhancements and improvements for the IPEX website

October 2009: the TWIG was established by the IPEX Board

December 2009: The Lisbon Treaty came into force

early 2010: EP agreed to fund the developments

January-March 2010: Meetings of the TWIG

May 2010: IPEX Board approved specifications

CHANGE IS IN THE AIR …



Technical aspects

Old site: Based on the Open Source WCMS Jahia (http://www.jahia.org)

Advantage:- existing CMS framework, coping with multilingual aspects- quick initial development

- easy hands-on for the users (contributors)Disadvantage: - performance issues if the content has a high turnover

- considerable investment to migrate to recent versions which correct issues

- huge investment to answer specific needs (notification, webservices, ..)




Technical aspects

New site: specific CMS (Java, Javascript (JQuery, ExtJS), Spring, Hibernate, SolR (Lucene))

- Focus on the specificities and new needs of IPEX- Back office separated from frontend (website)- Performance optimized - Specific functions are easily implemented- Common rendering of output- New web services proposed




Technical aspects


IPEX

Views

Security

Database Full text search

PDF outputRSS output

HTML output XML output

Business Logic

Mailing

Task scheduller

Web services

Clients



Updated and improved site structure

• Redesign the homepage

• Review and standardize the page structure

FEATURES OF THE NEXT VERSION



Public Homepage

SCREENSHOT - WEBSITE

Language selection

Search

General news (changing)

Calendar

Sections explained

EU documents new/deadline

Links

Main menu



Standard structure of an IPEX page




Updated and improved site structure

• Redesign the Dossier page and structure - complete and comprehensive outline - include comments and responses from all actors - information related to the informal political dialogue




Documents & Dossier page (1)




Scrutiny page (1)




Improved accessibility

• Language issues Provide means for - allowing navigation possibly in all EU languages - contributions from National Parliaments in English or French and/or

in another language - list the availability of other language versions - apply a substitution rule if a language version is not available

• WAI level A compliance




Search facilities & Personalisation

• Extended advanced search - a more modern and complete search

• Full text search - include content from uploaded documents

• Saved searches - RSS and Notifications




Private Homepage




Forum – Back office - Websites

• Forum Provide spaces restricted to identified users for exchanging information

about legislative proposals or other documents

• Ease adding and editing of content

• Incorporate other web site - EU Speakers conference




Back office: A desktop in the browser (ExtJS)

SCREENSHOT BACK OFFICE



Back office: A desktop in your browser (ExtJS)




Back office: example of a Scrutiny




Integration with other information systems

• Direct transmission from the European Commission to IPEX … following contacts to decide the transmission modalities

• Negotiated receipts from the Council of the European Union … following contacts to decide the transmission modalities• Retrieval of information from the Publication Office

• Exchanges by XML feed with National Parliaments




WEBSERVICES in GENERAL

WEBSERVICES



XML Feed = Transmission of scrutinies [old architecture]

WEBSERVICES



XML Feed = Transmission of scrutinies [new architecture]

WEBSERVICES



Requirements … not everything can be solved by IT

• Technical working group to get in contact with the European Commission and the Council of the European Union for defining the transmission modalities for documents

• Recommendation for open document formats

• Language issue




In brief …

• Reviewed structure of the website and the core product

• Different technology used

• Back office separated from the website

• Recent browser requested for contributors (IE 7, Firefox 2, Chrome 3, Safari 3, …)*

• XML feed: AXIS (phase out) replaced by SPRING (smaller change)

IMPORTANT

* Following a survey done in October 2010, only 1 chamber out of 29 that answered may have a concern (only using IE6)

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