Project name

Towards a catalogue of existing Education & Outreach material in the CERN IT department - Step 1 - Inventory

Project description

The Web was born at CERN. The very first site of the planet was created at CERN. Such a long tradition might lead, for the newcomer and general public, to a confusing mesh of information, documentation, web sites and other material.

Our Communications, Education & Outreach (CEO) section, within the Strategy & Executive Governance (GOV) group of the CERN IT department, has, amongst others, the Objectives to:

• Share & Deliver Knowledge & Training.
• Make a coherent educational activities' Programme.
• Support Public Engagement (=Outreach).
• Raise Awareness on CERN IT's innovative impact.

To get an idea of what we already have, as events with educational material for use by CERN IT and/or a larger community, as a first step, we need to:

• Make a Catalogue of Educational & Outreach material.
• Tag the items with Keywords to improve search results.
• Estimate the Curation effort required for the information to remain useful.

This project is about:

1. making an Inventory of what already exists - navigation with and without CERN login will be necessary to classify the material as internal or public. Thinking about the optimal way to structure the final report (the first  days). Several links are included in the "References" below, including past event categories. It is important to focus on the active categories, and acquire a basic understanding of the "History" good enough to include in the report a proposal for the legacy part. Advice during this period will be given by Melissa Gaillard and Miguel Angel Marquina.
2. writing a Report about how to present this material in the Catalogue (new web site? notifications on new individual entries in event categories?  something else?...). An estimation of the (future) Catalogue's maintenance effort could, optionally, be included in the report. This part will occupy the last 5 days, i.e. half of the internship period. Supervisor will be Maria Dimou.

Outcome of this 10-days' internship

A report is linked from event https://indico.cern.ch/e/Ariadne. Final version is V10.

Required skills

Notions of modern Web design.
Skilled navigation.
Good writing skills.
Excellent English.

Learning experience

Education is one of the four pillars of CERN's mission. This is why there are many programmes and series of talks, lectures, e-learning modules, presentations, documentation pages that explain the research done at CERN. While finding and browsing this material the student will learn a lot about the expertise existing in the lab. She will also learn how to structure information and present it in a short report.

Project duration

10 days

Project area

Learning

Contact for further details

Maria Dimou

References

Most of the entries in https://codimd.web.cern.ch/s/aKqHtwDDa# require a CERN login, so they can't be visited before the student starts the internship.
Moreover, it is part of the student's tasks to navigate and document the difficulty to discover what already exists.
Some of the event categories below correspond idle event categories. It is important to focus on the active categories, and acquire a basic understanding of the "History" good enough to include in the report a proposal for the out-of-date part.

CERN group

IT-GOV

Status

Accomplished Submitted by Maria Dimou on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 - 13:47.