Transport Knowledge Partnership (TKP) website

Date: 2004-2005
Type: Content Management

Summary

We developed the pilot version of the Transport Knowledge Partnership (TKP) website.

Description

The Transport Knowledge Partnership (TKP) is an innovative approach to making more effective use of available knowledge, and encourage greater participation from developing countries in the management and application of knowledge.

The aim of the website is to link together transport knowledge from many leading organisations and provide visitors and members with a single entry point into the vast knowledge base currently available online

Website features

Simple and advanced searches through document abstracts provided by multiple information partners
A rating / feedback system, where site vistors can rate the usefulness of the documents presented by the site. A combination of ratings and page views will mean that most relevent documents for a particular search will be shown first
Personalisation system lets registered vistors save their own searches to provide a convenient 'What's New' service to keep them updated on information relevant to their needs
The site is multi-lingual, in English and French, with the facility to easily add more languages at a later date

Administration System features

The Content Management System enables the website administrator to manage all aspects of the site including :

Images
Documents
Navigation bars
Page layout templates
Content - news items, events, web pages etc
Contacts / site subscribers

Benefits

simple "Google-style" search interface that can search through the full text of PDF files, web pages and Microsoft Word documents
automatic expansion of search criteria if a search yields a small amount of results
functions for users to save their search criteria for future reuse
comprehensive administration system designed to manage thousands of documents
full text indexing of document files