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About the Arab Thought Foundation:
The Arab Thought Foundation is an independent,
international, nongovernmental institution, having no political or sectarian
ties. It is a solidarity initiative between the business community and the
intellectuals to promote the proud attachment to the nation core values through
a responsible freedom. Dedicated to all domains of knowledge, i.e., science,
medicine, management, information and literature, the Foundation channel
intellectual and cultural efforts to promote the attainment of the nation’s
solidarity, its advancement and the preservation of its identity.
Click more to view the ATF challenge and solution.
The Challenge:
The Arab Thought Foundation (ATF) main challenge was to
publish online the wide range of resources they have internally to the public. The
main challenge was that the content is unstructured and is being produced on
daily basis from 6 different sources. ATF had 3 main conferences each year. Each
conference session produces articles and comments. These articles need to be indexed,
stored and published as media kits to the press. On the other hand ATF had a
magazine called Hewar Al Arab and needs to archive and index the old paper magazines
to become searchable.
ATF had different types of content. Movie files that was
given by Al Arabiyah TV channel for the shared program with ATF (Hewar Al
Arab). The different types of content made it hard for any system to manage
such a diversity of content types.
ATF could not publish all the material on one portal because
each conference or program was presented with different sponsors. So the main
solution was to build a public website for each program and conference.
The programs and conferences were managed by non-technical
project managers and PR executives. So the administration needs to be as easy
as possible for those users.
The Solution:
Ethos build up a content repository. All types of content
was stored and automatically indexed. Different portals were quickly built
using Ethos Multi-site website content management server. Security and privileges
set with a single sign-on across all the portals to make it easy for
administrators and partners to use the system. Even Outlook web access was
integrated to create a on stop screen to manage work from Ethos portal.
Archived documents were indexed by advanced document imaging
tools and stored inside the system ready for publishing. Videos stored, cropped
and compressed for web publishing through Ethos multi-media suite. People now
can see them through online players embedded in Ethos Media Suite.
Ethos Document manager helped publishing the conferences papers
online directly after the conference sessions and thus decreased the pressure
of printing and distribution on project managers.
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