Cardiogenics - extranet that brought the members of this pan-Euopean project together

Client

The Cardiogenics Project is an EU-sponsored programme that aims to discover genetic variations that lead to coronary artery disease. These variations show the path towards developing new treatments.

Challenge

The Caridiogenics Project is based at the University of Lubeck but has partners in seven European countries. The challenge was to manage collaboration between twenty different institutions, each with teams of varying size. Each individual member of the project had a unique status according to their research interests.

Access to the collaborative work needed to be tightly controlled. Documents needed to be accessible to multiple people but suitable rigour needed to be applied to the collaborative editing process whilst accommodating the very different working styles of researchers. As a project funded by tax-payers all technology had to meet the highest standards of accessibility.

Solution

The Logic House created an extranet that brought the members of this pan-Euopean project together. All team members can use the extranet at the same time from their own locations.

Security was provided by a system of user accounts created with a registration process confirmed by an administrator. Each unique user is assigned an access level in accordance with their status in the project.

The facility for collaborative document creation allows the administrator to create a document structure and assign read or write permissions to individuals or groups of individuals. Each user may view or edit those chapters allowed to him by the administrator.

If the user has the relevant permissions, the collaborative document can be printed into MS Word or PDF and downloaded to a local machine.

Technology

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
XHTML, CSS, W3C compliant

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