Learn how Lineage can be used to manage numerous nested websites and how a multi-directional syndication and publication mechanism is allowing them to leverage content across all sites. Six Feet Up will present how the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame has replaced a profusion of independent and disconnected websites with a Plone-based hub-and-spoke site using Lineage. Content can be easily syndicated to and from any of the participating sites through a sophisticated mechanism that lets content contributors submit syndication requests through a publication workflow. This case study will show how the deployed solution is giving the University the ability to delegate content creation while still controlling the quality of the output, as well as give more visibility to some of the content pieces authored by its faculty members.

1. Clayton Parker
Notre Dame:
Seamless syndication
across nested sub sites
hosted in a single Plone
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2. Who Am I

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Center for Low Energy Systems
Technology
About
College of Engineering
Dept. of Aerospace and
Mechanical Engineering
Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Dept. of Civil & Environmental
Engineering & Earth Sciences
Dept. of Computer Science and
Engineering
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Wireless Institute
Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Center for Environmental Science and Technology
Flow Physics and Control
Materials Science of Actinides
Microfuidics and Medical Diagnostics
Midwest Institute for
Nanoelectronics Discovery
Nano Science and Technology
Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame

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The Issues

6. Lack of consistent branding across all sites

7. Lack of consistent branding across all sites

8. Lack of consistent branding across all sites

9. Lack of consistent branding across all sites

10. Home-grown Conductor
Managing content on a variety of
platforms was difficult...

11. Promoting content across all sites was
even more difficult...

12. Finding information was
frustrating for web visitor

13. And poor SEO (due to site
competition for keywords)
didn’t help...

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Phase 1

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Phase 1

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Phase 1

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Phase 1
Centralized user management for administrators

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Use a central staff / faculty / student directory

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Make it easy to contribute and review content

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Basic syndication of subsite content to parent sites

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At Launch

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Center for Environmental Science and Technology
Flow Physics and Control
Materials Science of Actinides
Microfuidics and Medical Diagnostics
Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery
Nano Science and Technology
Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering
Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering & Earth Sciences
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering Center for Low Energy Systems Technology

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Phase II
Optimization

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Manual duplication of
content needed to be
addressed...

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Phase II

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Phase II

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Phase II
Made it easy to move content around

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Phase II
Enabled multi-directional syndication requests

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Content reviewers see syndication status

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Phase II
Content reviewers can get email notifications

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Today

39. Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Center for Environmental Science and Technology
Flow Physics and Control
Materials Science of Actinides
Microfuidics and Medical Diagnostics
Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery
Nano Science and Technology
Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame

40. PLONE CONFERENCE 2013Photo Credits
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturegeak/5642083189/ (who)
http://flickr.com/photos/sybrenstuvel/2468506922/ (about)
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jasonparis/4788901592 (promote)
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nataliemaynor/2512003989/ (finding info)
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/slurm/3989139431/ (poor seo)
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/bettyx1138/1340848303/ (duplication)
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