I've split my responses into sections; firstly, a few comments on the "look and feel", followed by a section on site architecture/navigation.
I. Look & Feel - The overall design has a nice clean look -- much improved! - The light blue in the ICOM logo clashes with the darker blue of the interface; are we allowed to re-colour the ICOM logo slightly to use a matching darker blue? Also, "COUNSIL" is not the correct English spelling, it should be "COUNCIL". - The copyright statements say "Copyright 2002, CIDOC", but is that true? Only "E40 Legal Body" entities can own copyrights! - I'm still not a fan of the "homunculus" background image -- it's arbitrary, doesn't communicate anything meaningful and isn't even particularly decorative. At least it's less intrusive in this version! II. Architecture & Navigation - I like the drop-down menu bar for the top level categories. Unfortunately, however, the menuitem text does not show up in Netscape (4.77), although it does show up in IE6; - What are "menu1" and "menu2" placeholders for? Will they simply repeat the drop-down menus? If so, we could probably dispense with one or the other. Also, the side bar submenu items do not appear in Netscape 4.77 (OK in IE6); - I hope that the sub-categories will become a bit more intuitive in the new version of the site; Below is my bid, which attempts to break up some of our current broad categories into more specific groupings (e.g. "Documents" replaced by "CRM Definition", "Tutorials", "Mappings", "Further Reading" etc.), and also attempts to reduce redundancy by promoting and expanding "Information Forum" (currently "Documents" under CRM, "Information Forum" under under CRM SIG and "Links" under nothing) to a top-level category, and move all links to related-but-not-directly-about-the-CRM stuff to subcategories therein. Finally, I suggest we get rid of the "What's New" page, and move the "what's new?" links to an area on the homepage -- this will encourage us to keep it fresh! The CIDOC CRM - Introduction (short, snappy intro of about 3-4 paragraphs); - Scope; - CRM Definition (use this page ONLY for links to versions of the CRM definition; 3.2.1 preferably in HTML as well as RTF); - Class Hierarchy (This urgently needs updating to v3.2.1, even if we have to use a different presentation technique, e.g. static image. Actually, a static image of the entire class hierarchy would be helpful in any case); - Tutorials (links to intros., teaching materials etc.); - Mappings; - Validation; - Issues; CIDOC CRM SIG - Introduction; - Charter (currently "Status & Objectives"); - Members; - Meetings & Reports (info about SIG meetings ONLY, not other events or meetings) - Collaboration (related initiatives, e.g. ABC/Harmony, DELOS etc.) - Events (other events where the CRM is presented, discussed etc.) - Mailing List Documentation Standards Working Group - Introduction - Meetings & Reports - Mailing List CHIOS - Introduction - Meetings & Reports (password-protected?) - Members Only area (password protected) - Mailing List (password-protected) Info Forum - Applications & Politics - Philosophical Considerations - Etc. etc. (Background papers on oo modelling, knowledge representation etc., useful but not primarily concerned with the CRM) Finally, a request -- can we get rid of the "Important Note" about the Geneva site? I never understood the logic of giving a link to the out-of-date (and long-since broken) Geneva site prime position on the "official" site! Cheers, T. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Gill <> [email protected] Research Libraries Group <> http://www.rlg.org/ 1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Voice: +1 (650) 691-2304 <> Fax: +1 (650) 964-1461 martin <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 04/03/2002 04:32 AM To: [email protected] cc: Subject: [crm-sig] Proposal for new Website Dear All, Please let me know your opinion about the look and feel, as proposed in http://www.iworxnet.com/cidoc Martin -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(810)391625 | Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(810)391609 | Project Leader SIS | Email: [email protected] | | Information Systems Laboratory | Institute of Computer Science | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | | Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | | Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst | --------------------------------------------------------------
