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RESTORE http://www.restorerivers.eu/

Case Study Wiki Demonstration

and works in partnership with

The RESTORE project is made possible with the contribution of the LIFE+

financial instrument of the European Community

http://www.restorerivers.eu/

• Share knowledge and promote best practice – RESTORE project web site including River Restoration

Case Study Wiki

• Case Study Wiki– Shared repository for river restoration case studies– Like Wikipedia but tailored for you

• Simple to use and captures relevant information in a way that can be queried

– Regions, Countries, Catchments, Cases– Shared European Community of Practitioners

Overview

Getting Started – access

20th April 2012 RESTORE Wiki Demonstration & Tutorial 3

Help!

Getting Started – create account


Case Study Creation


::

Create new case study from Main Page

Create new case study from country Page

Case Study Entry


Enter location as:•Lat & Long•Place/Post code•Select from map

Enter Project Overview•Title•Status•Themes•Country•Contact•Organisation•Multi‐site linkage

Case Study Edit

Edit subsection

Subsection quick links

Approval by designated regional users

Finding stuff ‐ search


Quick free text search

Free text search options

Finding stuff – simple search


Search by:•Status•Theme•Country•Case•River•Date•Cost•Monitoring•Place & Distance

Finding stuff –

comprehensive search


Search by:•Overview

• Theme,Status…•Catchment

• Region,Basin,River…•Site

• Morphology,Hydrology…•Background

• Date,Organistion,Cost…•Reasons

• Quality and Pressures…•Measures

• Physical,Social,Other…•Monitoring & Effects

• Bio,Hydro,Physico…•Place & Distance

• Free text search– E.g. toad

• Basic query– e.g. South Esk

• Advanced query– E.g. protected water vole

Example searches

Discussion


:

New section

Preview changes

Watch for changes

Include signature

Email

E‐mail user

E‐mail user

E‐mailuser

Questions

• What kind of case studies would you like to find on the Wiki database?

• What questions would you like the wiki to answer for you?

• Do you have any case studies to add to the database? (please list)

RESTORE Wiki Tutorial Quick Guide

1 ‐

Getting Started

Access

via the RESTORE web site http://www.restorerivers.eu

(Note

for demo use http://213.246.139.205/RESTOREwiki‐demo

Log

in

via Log in / create account

hyperlink (top right below banner).

Create your account via the Create an Account

hyperlink on the Log in

page. Email address is required for account verification (disabled

during tutorial).

2 ‐

Search

Quick

Text search via button in menu ribbon. The Search button can

be used to customise the search scope.

Case study Query

access via Search case studies link in left hand

pane. Also shortcuts via Country pages and Main Page.

Simple Query

for search by Status, Theme, Status, Location, River,

Date, Cost, Monitoring.

Advanced Query

for search by Overview, Catchment, Site,

Background, Reasons, Measures, Monitoring & Effects, Location.

3 ‐

Collaboration ‐

Discussions

Start a discussion – case studies and other pages have a Discussion

link in the menu ribbon which gives access to a forum.

Format

support viaButtons:

Adding a Signature

recommended as it acts a shortcut to contact page.

Preview before saving changes :

4 ‐

Collaboration ‐

email

Case study – via the Main Contact User ID in Project Overview (if

none can look at the page History

to find user).

Regional contacts – each RESTORE region has own page (accessed via

country page) with email links in its contacts section.

Discussion

– via the contributor signature .

Search for a user via Special Pages Users and Rights section.

Email user via the user’s E‐mail this user

link in left hand pane. Note

email is indirect via user’s configured email address.

5 ‐

Collaboration – Case Studies

Create study – via link in Create section of country page or from main

page Create a case study

link. This opens form for entry of case study

overview information such as name, location, themes…

Update study – a study is split into a number of sections each of which

can be separately edited to add additional information. The more

information the better as this will help with searching and sharing.

Tracking changes – a Wiki has concept of watchlist

of pages with email notificationWhich Is set for authored or edited pages. Access via tick box or drop down arrow:

http://213.246.139.205/RESTOREwiki-demo

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