Uniweb CMS

Integrated web solutions for managing academic content.

Uniweb CMS is a content management system for academic institutions. The solution is the successor of Uniweb version 2, which offered the integration of a discovery network and academic CV management. The new Uniweb CMS is a platform of integrated web solutions that includes new content types, expert database, academic CV, and a powerful and collaborative discovery network.

Uniweb CMS simplifies the management of academic web content. Individual users can easily create expressive, personalizable, collaborative web profiles for themselves as well as their groups and projects. Web profiles can be linked to one another in order to create an engaging discovery network for the institution.

The webpages of a Uniweb network can now be integrated seamlessly into an institutional websites in order to preserve institutional branding while simplifying the management of evolving web content. Multiple domains and URLs can be use to access different parts of a network. For example, a departamental website can list its faculty members and link to their institutional web profiles by integrating Uniweb content with its own navigation bar and footer.

Introduction to Uniweb CMS (a.k.a. Uniweb v3)

Integrated apps for tailored solutions

Uniweb CMS offers a general platform of apps to address a much wider range of use cases in academic institutions. The new technology allows institutions to have a Uniweb network configured with a selection of apps from a catalog of solutions.

Different Uniweb apps can be purchased and installed into a Uniweb Network over time. All apps are designed to benefit from a common underlying infrastructure and to share information to achieve smooth integrations across the entire solution suite. The sharing of infrastructure across applications translates into costs savings for the institution and simplified workflows for end users. In this context, the word “app” means functionality that can be installed on a Uniweb network to enhance its capabilities. A useful analogy is that of an iPhone that has an operating system (core software) and optional apps that can be installed on it (platform apps).

PLATFORM APP	DESCRIPTION
	Academic CV with CCV Sync integration; downloadable custom reports and academic metrics.
	A discovery network with web profiles for faculty, topics, groups, equipment, and academic units. A profile explorer with advanced filtering, interactive map, and advanced search.
	Web article editor with rich media, tables, and mathematical equations.
	Content-driven websites created from profile data and relationships; bilingual, accessible, and mobile websites.
	Manager of publication references for citations, CV data entry, webprofiles, and websites.
	Web profile for events; RSVP options; activity calendar; speaker schedules. Best with Social and Discovery apps.
	Web profile for disciplines and experts; custom search with synonyms; media relations workflows.
	Automated workflow for mailing articles and posts based on topics of interest.
	Enhances all web profiles with posting, timelines, and followers; likes, reposts, and comments.

Web content manager and Website builder

A website is primarily a communication tool. Institutes, researchers, and research groups need websites to disseminate information and engage with collaborators, colleagues, students, industry, journalists, and the community at large.

While web profiles and websites serve different purposes, their content often has significant overlap. In particular, Uniweb CMS has rich web profiles that are extendable by institutional IT and that capture relationships with other profiles of different types. Most, if not all, of the information in such web profiles is needed for building websites and is meant to stay in sync across profiles and websites. Because of that, the Websites app builds websites from the contents of web profiles automatically. With this approach, there is no administrative duplication in maintaining network profiles and personal websites. The solution avoids putting users in the difficult position of choosing whether to spend more time updating their websites or their web profiles by unifying the location of data editing.

The Websites app is a turnkey solution that offers faculty members the ability to create professional, modern, multilingual, accessible, and responsive websites with no overhead required from university administrators. Each website template includes various page templates designed for standard academic needs such as knowledge dissemination, bibliography, blogging, research projects, multimedia showrooms, contact information, project landing pages, and more.