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Developing the SEPT website
At the SEPT meeting in Argentina it was agreed to engage Hodsons to produce a new website:
• Completed May 2011
• Hosted in the UK by Hodsons
• Cost £5,940 (with 1 year hosting)
Developing the SEPT website
Primary aims of the new website are:
• Search engine optimisation (SEO)
• Portal to increase traffic to national associations
• Promote the Conferences and inform attendees
• Definitive international information resource via Papers
Developing the SEPT website
Main sections comprise of:• Introductory Home page - optimising SEO• SEPT and its Members – with web and email
links• National Associations – with interactive map• Conferences – reviewing recent past and
promoting forthcoming (need full list)• Technical Papers – with choices of search facility
With rolling images and News headlines on each page.
Developing the SEPT website
Using the Technical Paper resource
Search facility options:
1. Author’s Name – from drop-down list
2. Subject(s) – from drop-down list
3. Word-search – typed in by user
Developing the SEPT website
Options 1 and 2 use specific ‘tags’ allocated by DS and can be used together or in isolation.
Option 3 is a ‘Google like’ search engine looking at all text in all the papers.
Developing the SEPT website
Current limitations and potential improvements to the Technical Paper resource:
• Option 3 takes a wide, coarse approach and is best used after Options 1 & 2
• Options 1 and 2 are restricted by the specific tags allocated. They use various name forms and localised terminology
Developing the SEPT website
Current limitations and potential improvements to the Technical Paper resource:
• Duplication and some errors in the Author’s Name listing have already been resolved
• The current Subject list can be expanded with international terminology provided by JH with Hodsons – and applied to future papers
• Expanded tagging will not cover existing papers
Developing the SEPT website
Standardisation of information for tags will be the key to simple and effective addition of future papers – applied by Conference organisers:
• A single author’s name as Family Name, initial 1, initial 2, initial 3 (if any) – e.g. Brown, H. K.
• No multiple author names, titles or ‘et al.’• Up to 3(?) subject key-words selected from a
prescribed SEPT list• No bespoke subject descriptions
Developing the SEPT website
Standardisation of information for tags will be the key to simple and effective addition of future papers – applied by Conference organisers:
• We need to work closely with the Chinese Conference organisers to test implementation.
Developing the SEPT website
Suggested next steps – promoting and informing about the Chinese Conference as a phased process during 2011/12:
• Launch News items – link to dedicated organisers’ website
• Expand Conference page and add PDF downloads (programme, brochure, etc.) from organisers
• Updates and reminder items• Need to agree budget
Developing the SEPT website
Suggested next steps – after the Chinese Conference:
• Upload all new papers with allocated Author Name and Subject(s) tags for each
• Consider possible new subject categories based on Conference topics
• Add post-Conference review text and images • Announcement and early promotion of next
Conference• Need to agree budget.