Monthly Archive for July, 2009

Publishing Platforms for 2 Academic Conferences

Modelling Science Conference Website

Her­aeus and Mod­el­ling Sci­ence are two inter­dis­cip­lin­ary work­shop series on the sub­ject of meas­ur­ing, visu­al­ising, and fore­cast­ing schol­arly activ­it­ies. Their web­sites were to provide a pub­lish­ing plat­form to the par­ti­cip­at­ing research­ers for all conference-related mater­i­als on the one hand. On the other, the research­ers wanted to use their web­site as sci­entific micro­cosm and ana­lyse the work pub­lished there over time.

Ksign was con­sul­ted by the devel­op­ment team to cre­ate a metadata model that would meet aca­demic quo­ta­tion cri­teria, provide adequate search and fil­ter­ing options, and could be ana­lysed empir­ic­ally. We also designed the web pres­ences as reques­ted in a very “min­im­al­ist and aca­demic” way that respec­ted the cor­por­ate iden­tit­ies of both organ­ising parties.

Both plat­forms run on Drupal.