☁️How to manage content with profiles
Creating web content and making it searchable and discoverable can be a time consuming task. But it doesn’t have to be.
Uniweb profiles are here to help you organize your information, articles, publications, projects, and documents and, if desired, also share them on the web.
A Uniweb profile is like a computer file but instead of storing a document, it stores information about a specific subject matter. Just like regular files, profiles come in different types. For example, you can create a group profile to keep information about a project, a research group, or a lab. A group profile captures all the information that is relevant about a group, and can contain documents, images, links, addresses, and more.
A profile can be downloaded as a text document or spreadsheet, together with all additional files attached to it. Profiles are an excellent way to keep track of information privately or within a team. Profiles are also a powerful method for creating webpages with just one click.
When a profile is made public, it becomes available as a webpage and visible to search engines. Profile webpages benefit from being part of an institutional domain helping them improve their ranking in search results.
Public profiles can also be discovered via the profile explorer or by following relationships across profiles. For example, a web visitor may first arrive at a group profile page and then navigate to the profile pages of the individual group members.
All the information in a profile, including the contents of attached files, is instantly searchable publicly, members-only, or privately, based on your preferences.
When you login into a Uniweb network, you are presented with the profile manager page, which is the tool that helps you create new profiles, choose who else can see and edit them, and eventually delete them.
A very important feature of profiles is that they can be connected with one another via relationships. For example, the profile of a researcher can be connected to the profile of a research group to create a membership relationship and define the role of the researcher in the group.
You can use profiles for organizing your own information privately and for communicating information to others over the web.
The contents of a profile can be used to create webpages, rich links within webpages, and even an entire website.
When a profile is made public as a webpage, the relationship with other public profile webpages become visible and navigable via rich links. The result is an interactive concept map that helps web visitors discover and make sense of the information that you and your colleagues share with them.
When you make a profile public, you are effectively creating an advanced webpage with its content, and making the content instantly discoverable on the web. All with just one click!
Profiles are collaborative. You can invite other users to help you manage a profile and give them different access levels. You can also share profiles with the members of selected groups, which is ideal for dealing with a changing lists of collaborators.
As profiles change or get deleted, there is quite a bit of housekeeping to do across all the profiles that are connected with one another as well as the system's search functionality. The good news is that you don't have to worry about any of that. The system is designed to make it easy to manage web content while performing all the needed background tasks to make it discoverable.
List your publications, write web articles, explain your research projects, promote your research group, create newsletters, make documents easy to find, and more by creating profiles. You upload the information for each profile and Uniweb does the rest.
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