MMI Website Architecture Version 0.2 for MMI webteam review

Intro

First, this is a reminder that there will be a webteam telecon this Thursday at 1PM East coast time on Thursday, March 1, 2007. The meeting will be spent further refining the website architecture. Version 0.3 of the architecture will be posted before the meeting on Thursday, incorporating input between now and then.

Please review this MMI website architecture and insert your comments/suggestions below using the add comment tool. Alternatively, send email to the MMI webteam. At the end of this doc are some key points, questions and requests to keep in mind during your review of these docs.

Mindmap (Freemind) File

MMI Website Mindmap Version 2 (.mm file)

PNG Representation of Architecture

Mindmap Version 2 (png)

Points

• all Blue items (except for HomePage Features) are level 1 menu items for the website
• all Green items are 2nd level but appear when the user mouses over the associated level 1 menu item
• the Guides team is determining the menu structure for the level 1 MMI Guides section
• most of the work on the architecture since the last meeting has been done on the "Metadata Conventions" section
• the "Technical Tools" and "Projects" sections are under active revision.

Questions for all to consider

• are the categories under vocabularies and ontologies (colored red and under metadata conventions) appropriately named?
• should "vocabularies and ontologies" and "Services, Protocols and Formats" be moved out to the top level?

Requests of Team Members

• John and Luis - could take a look at the "Technical Tools" and "Projects" sections and think about a better way to organize them. Please reply to this email if you'd like me to setup a time to discuss these sections with you on the phone before our conference call if this would help expedite this.
• Dru (as Guides Team Liaison?) - could you confirm that the current Guides structure correctly matches the Guides team understanding? (note that one comment in our last call was asking the Guides team to consider raising "Best Practices" to more visibility in the menu structure somehow.