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IPEX - The next version IPEX – The next version • A preview of ongoing work • to redesign the IPEX website Jerry Hilbert European Parliament, DG ITEC (DIT) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version INTRODUCTION 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version INTRODUCTION Statistics of pages added ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version CURRENT SITE Homepage ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version CURRENT SITE Legislative dossier – Dossier page ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version CURRENT SITE Legislative dossier – Scrutiny page ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version CHANGE IS IN THE AIR … 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version 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, . . ) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version CHANGE IS IN THE AIR … Technical aspects § New site: specific CMS (Java, Javascript (JQuery, Ext. JS), Spring, Hibernate, Sol. R (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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version CHANGE IS IN THE AIR … Technical aspects ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version FEATURES OF THE NEXT VERSION Updated and improved site structure • Redesign the homepage • Review and standardize the page structure ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT - WEBSITE Public Homepage Language selection Search Main menu General news (changing) Calendar Sections explained EU documents new/deadline Links ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT - WEBSITE Standard structure of an IPEX page ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version FEATURES OF THE NEXT VERSION 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT - WEBSITE Documents & Dossier page (1) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT - WEBSITE Documents & Dossier page (2) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT - WEBSITE Documents & Dossier page (3) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT - WEBSITE Scrutiny page (1) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version FEATURES OF THE NEXT VERSION 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version FEATURES OF THE NEXT VERSION 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT - WEBSITE Private Homepage ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version FEATURES OF THE NEXT VERSION 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT BACK OFFICE Back office: A desktop in the browser (Ext. JS) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT BACK OFFICE Back office: A desktop in your browser (Ext. JS) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version SCREENSHOT BACK OFFICE Back office: example of a Scrutiny ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version FEATURES OF THE NEXT VERSION 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version WEBSERVICES in GENERAL ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version WEBSERVICES XML Feed = Transmission of scrutinies [old architecture] ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version WEBSERVICES XML Feed = Transmission of scrutinies [new architecture] ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version FEATURES OF THE NEXT VERSION 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 ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest

IPEX - The next version IMPORTANT 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) * Following a survey done in October 2010, only 1 chamber out of 29 that answered may have a concern (only using IE 6) ECPRD ICT seminar, 17 -20 November 2010, Bucharest