Overview

Collaborations in ScienceSoft are groups of Organizations or individuals sharing common interests and performing joint activities. Collaborations can develop or use software through their members and usually take the form of projects or research initiatives.

New Collaborations can be registered by any authenticated user. Once a Collaboration is registered, the user becomes the owner of that Collaboration page and can edit the existing content, but not delete the Collaboration altogether. Before a Collaboration can be registered, it is necessary to login with a valid ScienceSoft account.

 

Authentication and Login

Before you can login into ScienceSoft, you need to have a valid account. For the time being valid accounts are standard CERN accounts or lightweight CERN accounts. Lightweight CERN account can be provided to anybody having a valid e-mail address and can be used on a number of CERN-hosted applications, including ScienceSoft. Login using Facebook, Gmail or other OpenID accounts is being set up. For more information, please refer to the Login page

 

Where to go to register a new Collaboration

Once you are logged in, click on the Collaborations link in the top menu of any page. The page provides links to register a new Collaboration or search for registered Collaborations. Click on "Register a new Collaboration" to go to the registration form.

 

The "Create Collaboration" form

The form to register a new Collaboration is called "Create Collaboration". It contains a number of fields to set various properties of the Collaboration. Mandatory fields are marked with a red asterisk (*) in the form:

Name:  the short name or acronym of the Collaboration

Full name:  the full extended name of the Collaboration

Description:  a description of the Collaboration mission, activities, main achievements, etc. The first few words of the Description are also used as Summary in the teaser form when your Collaboration is displayed as part of the result of a search or similar list views. You can modify the Summary to be displayed by using the "Edit Summary" link above the Description text box

Logo:  the Collaboration logo, it must be an image of type png, gif, jpg, or jpeg of max 2 MB size. If its resolution is higher than 100x100 px, it will be automatically resized

Image:  an optional image representing the Collaboration, like its main achievements or whatever you think conveys the appropriate message about what you do, it must be an image of type png, gif, jpg, or jpeg of max 5 MB size. If its resolution is higher than 550x400 px, it will be automatically resized

Scientific domains:  A comma separated list of scientific domains or disciplines where the Organization is active. By typing a few letters you can get a list of existing scientific disciplines already in use by registered Organizations, Collaborations or Software Products.

Start and end dates:  the start date of the Collaboration and an optional end date

Manager:  The name of the Collaboration Manager. The person must be a ScienceSoft registered user.

Web sites:  One or more web site URLs with an optional title, for example the main web site, videos, overview documents, etc.

Collaboration type:  the Collaboration form, a few fixed options are presented, if your Collaboration does not fall in any of those categories, please let us know at ScienceSoft Support

Contact:  One or more optional web sites or email addresses handling requests about your Collaboration.

Members (Organizations):  The list of Organizations participating in the Collaboration. They must be registered in ScienceSoft. You can type a few letters of the name to get a list of matching names.

Location:  the address of the Collaboration (for example the address of its Manager or Coordinator), it is displayed on the Collaboration page in ScienceSoft and used to display maps. It is recommended to provide a full address, but anything beyond the City and Country is optional.

Revision:  use this to optionally flag a modification as a revision and save a copy of the previous version

Alias:  an optional single-word term to be used as friendly alias for your Collaboration in the ScienceSoft site instead of the longer Drupal-style node name

 

Questions?

If you have any question on the process of registering a new Collaborations or suggestions about how to improve it, please feel free to post comments at the bottom of the page or send a message to the ScienceSoft Support team