-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 2
Website How to & Best Practices
Earth Lab has six focus areas: Extremes & Natural Hazards, Adaptation Science, Earth Data Across Scales, Teaching & Learning Earth Data Science, Cutting-Edge Earth Analytics, and Landscape Dynamics. These are the unifying themes that all Earth Lab research and projects fall within. These themes are meant to remain static---they will not change over time depending on grants or personnel moves.
Each Earth Lab **focus area **has projects nested within it. Each project is led by an Earth Lab scientist. In contrast to focus areas, these projects may change based on funding or personnel changes however ideally the project areas remain somewhat consistent so earth lab doesn’t build up dozens of project pages that become dated over time. Ideally however project pages generally describe project areas that you are working on. For example for the education team, the focus area that we are most focused on is teaching EDS. Some of our project themes include:
- Open education
- Diversity in STEM
- Evaluation of teaching and learning EDS
It is not likely that those project areas will change in the near or even distant future. This allows us to talk about these areas with confidence. When we have new funded projects such as the earth data science corps we then write blog posts about the work. This keeps the project area content new and up to date. A blog can be tagged allowing it to live in several places given a project may span multiple project areas and in some cases it could span focus areas as well. Example with the EDSC we have evaluation, it targets diversity and we also are using open education modules.
The flexibility of blog posts allow earth lab to “Cross publish” content across focus areas in an attempt to remove the siloed appearance of the previous website design.
Team members write blog posts about their work related to various projects. These are meant to provide updates on the work Earth Lab is doing.
Link to Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZNB1ajALU (min ___)
Ideas for what content should be on a project page: Broader themes within a Focus Area (e.g. “Data Collection” for the Analytics Hub) Individual projects that last a year or longer or have a lot of attention/media coverage (e.g. Risky Development) Projects or teams that produce a lot of blog posts united by some central theme
Project pages have the following content capabilities: Header/Background Image/Subtitle Description Team Lead and Team Members Autopopulating blogs Pinned blogs (via the Featured Posts) Featured Content Cards, Featured Posts, Featured Section, Flexible Text Cards, and Text Funder
Pinned vs. Autopopulating Blog Content
- What The most recent blogs attached to the project (which is done on the blog creation page) will appear on the project page. This section appears under the About section, after the featured blogs (if added). Some projects will want a series of “featured” blogs as well as the most recent work. This can be done by adding the Featured Posts content type. This section will appear underneath the About section, before the other content (e.g. Recent Work, Team Members). Since they are added manually, these blogs are not required to be tagged with the project name, but it is recommended that you use the ones associated with the project.
- How CIRES IT sets up these sections, and they do so across the whole “Project” content type. Some individual pages (e.g. Newsletter) have similar sections that are added individually.