ANNEX of DE 3.1: “Infrastructure: ingestion and processing content and metadata”, M7 ECLAP BEST PRACTICE NETWORK User Manual Informative report Version: 1.6.2, draft Data: 18/04/2011 1 ECLAP Best Practice Network User Manual ECLAP Copyright Notice Depending on the document‘s declaration of accessibility on the title page, the following notices apply: This document is Public and it is available under the Creative Commons license: Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. This license permits non-commercial sharing and remixing of this work, so long as attribution is given. For more information on this license, you can visit, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/3.0/ Please note that: You can become affiliated with ECLAP. This will give you access to a great amount of knowledge, information related to ECLAP services, content and tools. If you are interested please contact ECLAP coordinator Paolo Nesi at [email protected]. Once affiliated with ECLAP you will have the possibility of using ECLAP for your organisation. You can contribute to the improvement of ECLAP by sending your contribution to ECLAP coordinator Paolo Nesi at [email protected] You can attend ECLAP meetings that are open to public, for additional information see www.eclap.eu or contact ECLAP coordinator Paolo Nesi at [email protected] Statement of originality: This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both. 2 ECLAP Best Practice Network User Manual Index European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) ........................................................................... 6 ECLAP Major Objectives ................................................................................................................................ 6 ECLAP Partners .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Join the ECLAP community ............................................................................................................................ 8 More information .......................................................................................................................................... 8 An overview on ECLAP ....................................................................................................................................... 9 Main screenshot of ECLAP ........................................................................................................................... 21 Kinds of digital contents .............................................................................................................................. 22 Play a content in the ECLAP ......................................................................................................................... 26 The Metadata box ................................................................................................................................... 29 The ACTIONS box ..................................................................................................................................... 29 The CONTENT block ................................................................................................................................. 30 Votes and comment ................................................................................................................................ 31 Main functionalities for unregistered public users ..................................................................................... 33 Full text search and Advanced search ..................................................................................................... 35 Europeana Block ...................................................................................................................................... 37 Functionalities for registered users ................................................................................................................. 39 Management of the personal profile and social links with other users/colleagues ................................... 44 Playlist management ................................................................................................................................... 49 Creation of a playlist ................................................................................................................................ 49 Visualization of a playlist ......................................................................................................................... 53 Manage Collections ..................................................................................................................................... 54 Create a new collection ........................................................................................................................... 54 Update a collection .................................................................................................................................. 56 Collection playback .................................................................................................................................. 56 ECLAP recommendations ............................................................................................................................ 57 Invite a not registered user to join ECLAP ............................................................................................... 57 Invite e registered user to see specific content ...................................................................................... 57 Automatic recommendations .................................................................................................................. 59 Advanced functionalities for content and activities related to groups ....................................................... 60 List of recent posts in the groups ........................................................................................................... 60 Content and activities unread related to your groups ............................................................................ 61 Last content and events of the portal ..................................................................................................... 61 3 ECLAP Best Practice Network User Manual Uploading objects on ECLAP ........................................................................................................................ 62 Indexing of content metadata ................................................................................................................. 65 Use of Calendar ........................................................................................................................................... 65 Object editing .............................................................................................................................................. 67 Blog .............................................................................................................................................................. 71 Description and draft user interface ....................................................................................................... 71 Blog creation ............................................................................................................................................ 73 Managing the mailing lists ........................................................................................................................... 75 Managing connections ................................................................................................................................ 75 Accept or refuse a new connection request ........................................................................................... 77 Send an invitation to a not registered user ............................................................................................. 77 Automatic production of Objects on ECLAP ................................................................................................ 79 Table summing up types of files managed/produced automatically by the portal .................................... 84 Role of Group Coordinators............................................................................................................................. 88 Creating WEB pages for groups ................................................................................................................... 88 Web page body syntax information ........................................................................................................ 93 Preview of WEB pages ............................................................................................................................. 94 Additional details on the production of web-pages ................................................................................ 95 Some further notes on creating WEB pages for groups .......................................................................... 97 Managing group users ................................................................................................................................. 98 Managing the group’s discussion Forum ....................................................................................................