Participants of the Platform are invited to contribute items

Participants of the Platform are invited to contribute items to the site in order to create a database where all relevant ICT developments within, and outside, the Platform HPCN can be found.

In the virtual publisher that you are about to enter a number of choices can be made on how and under which category keywords you can publish an item.

The following publication forms can be selected:

News Items: This publication form is designated for news items you would like to post on the site. These items will be published in the section News. Projects: This publication form is designated for the description of projects that your organisation is, has been, or will be, working on. These items will be published in the section ICT innovation. Organisation Profiles: This publication form is designated to describe your organisation and will be published in the section Platform Participants. Knowledge base: These publication form is designated for items that do not fit in any of the categories above. These items will be published in the section ICT innovation.

Each item needs to be marked with keywords from the following categories:

In what Development Phase is the item you are publishing on? A choice can be made from the following phases: Research, Technology, Applications and Implementation. What is the Exchange Category of your item? A choice can be made from Interaction, Best Practice, Products and Services and Online Services. What Sector does your item belong in? A choice can be made from the sectors Construction and Planning, Healthcare, Pharmaceutics, Entertainment, Finance, Food, Process Industry, Retail, Transport, Envi-ronment, Public Service. What Technology Cluster does your item belong to? Is it Visualisation, Simulation, Systems and Datamining or E-business?

You can update your posted items at all times.

User guide

VMP-Editor management tool

Select a publication/part

A number of publication templates have been predefined to be used as example. You can select one or more of them and use them together with a selection for an issue to create for instance a contents page.

Select an issue/issuedate

Enter here the date of the issue you want to select or from which you want to create a table-of-contents. In the format ccyymm (for instance 199901) or ccyymmdd (for instance 20000110).

Select on article-id

Each article has a unique identification. You can use an asterisk (*) as wild cards. For instance AE* finds all the articles of which the article-id starts with "AE".

showlist

This command creates a list of articles. Which articles depends on the selections made. By default, showlist creates a sortable list. You need to have Javascript enabled in your browser for that. You can also create a list that shows the editorial comments or a list that shows the attachments for instance pictures that belong to an article.

publish

publish creates versions from the articles to which the templates have been applied. When an article is to be published in several publications, several published versions are created.

contents

contents creates a table-of-contents for the publications and issue date selected. Only the already published articles are used for the table-of-content creation. Alternatively you can use the publish-then-contents button

publish-then-contents

publish-then-contentscreates a table-of-contents of an issue of a publication. In the process, all the individual articles are published too.

VMP Edit screen

This screen is used to enter articles, to edit them and to assign them to a publication. It is easier to understand when you have selected an article which is shown.

Messages

The upper part of the screen is used to display messages.

filename, save, restore, new

In this demo version of the VMP system, the filename is the article-id with extension .html added. Do not forget the extension or the article will not show up.

You can save an edited version of the article. For protection, you cannot overwrite an existing article with a different article-id. For restore use the filename including the .html extension. It is often easier to create a list of articles in the Editor management tool and select an article to edit from there. With new you can create a new article. (Do not forget the .html extension in the file name.

Author

After author there are three fields. The first is for the name of the author of the article. The second is for the date (format: ccyymmdd), the last field is either "yes" or "no": used in some templates to indicate whether the author's name should be included in the published article.

Editor

After editor there are three fields. The first is for the name of the author of the article. The second is for the date (format: ccyymmdd), the last field is for comments on the article. There is always an empty editor field available for a new editor/referee.

Contents elements

The next fields take the contents of the article. Not all elements are used in all templates. For instance sub titles are seldom used. In the lead elements, main, and References you may use HTML tags.