Background from the past, some numbers, general elements for EIONET FORUM

SESSION 2 PRINCIPLES AND

HISTORY

2011 Prepare CIRCA migration to EIONET Forum Transfer of mailing system (…@roles.eea.europa.eu) Account management Where to put all the material

2012 Finalise migration CIRCA-EIONET Forum Training and user support Support RDF based flows Proof of concept for project management support Interactive graphs in Forum portals

History: Migration from CIRCA

15 years CIRCA operational …..

After migration finalised (15.03.2012) 46 active Interest groups 54 archived

Now (24.09.2013) 44 Forum Interest groups 65 Project Interest groups 61 archived

Some statistics – CIRCA to Forum

2010 2011 2012 2013

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FORUMPROJECTSARCHIVE

Some statistics – traffic

1678 distinct users (different accounts) logged in into EIONET FORUM since May 2013

Interest groupInterest

group

EIONET Forum – structure

ZOPEApplication server

NaayaContent management system

EIONET Forum

Interest group

EnviroWindows

CHMBiodiv

BISE

Portal/websiteCustomise

Toolkits Customise/developNew features

CMSDevelopment/use

Application serveruse

Organised in 3 instances

FORUM core EIONET network activities based on permanent groups (NRC, NFP and ETC)

PROJECTS new established as platform for groups with expected lifespan of up to 2-3 years

ARCHIVES to sort out outdated material and provide a place for outdated IGs from CIRCA but keep content available on demand

All is part of EIONET (FORUM – PROJECTS – ARCHIVES) Non EIONET centric work hosted under Enviro Windows

EIONET Forum – focus on network support