AVISTA launches a new website and experiment a collaborative working environment for NAVSHP projects
The new url AVISTA Website portal is http://www.ist-avista.org(opens in new window). The new design focuses in facilitating relevant information and access to the documentation through friendly interfaces (Figure 1). A more extended website-portal, adding collaborative working tools, has been designed and it is offered to NAVSHP projects for their use in the concertation activities. New tools are, for example:,- Chat, where the persons can communicate online. ,- Discussion forums where the users can share ideas and opinions about of specific topics.,- Access to project place (Content management system). The ability to collaborate online and get relevant content increases use of the website and bandwidth. For this reason, a model (Figure 2) based in a collaborative functionality between the persons involved in the NAVSHP strategic objective has been designed.This new portal substitutes the previous one, http://www.rose.es/navshp(opens in new window) which has served to NAVSHP concertation since October 2003. The structure and sections of the new website-portal are: - Information about AVISTA partners,- Information about AVISTA project,- NAVSHP portfolio,- Events (Conferences, Workshop, Trade Shows and other relevant events for AVISTA).,- AVISTA Newsletters,- Concertation meetings,- FP6 Projects (IPs, NoEs, STREPs, SSAs),- FP5 Projects,- Coordination groups (CG1, CG2, CG3 y CG4) of the NAVSHP concertation process,- Useful links,- News,- AVISTA Partners (Restricted area). The Avista website project has been developed with a reliable and robust framework. The computer technologies that has been implemented: Apache web server, MySQL and PHP.AVISTA is a Specific Support Action project within the NAVSHP strategic objective, funded by the European Commission FP6 programme. It aims at supporting the FP6 projects in the area in a number of topics: concertation, projects portfolio, standardization, New Media Council, common exhibitions, etc. AVISTA partners are: ROSE Vision (coordinator), TELVIUM, INSTITUT FUER RUNDFUNKTECHNIK GMBH (IRT), PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V. TELEDIFFUSION DE FRANCE.
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