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CASE STUDY • RESEARCH
The Climate Link
Global Climate Research Portal is a novel platform to help policy makers, businesses, and funders of climate change research across all disciplines and geographies, connect with each other.
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Gaurav Dubey,
PhD Candidate, Oxford University 🇬🇧
Snapshot
Global Climate Research Portal was looking to create a website that hosts a database of information on ongoing climate change research by allowing researchers to register and submit their research information.
Migrated from: Google Sheets to custom posts in WordPress
Migrated to: WordPress powered by Humane Club
No. of pages created: 5
No of posts created: 120+
10000ft powering search or directory
A listing page was created using 10000ft to access database of all research information using filters (keywords, country, name of university, contributors etc), search and sort (by modified date or contributor name).
Crowd sourcing data from community
The database was meant to be created bottom-up i.e by users signing up to become registered members of the portal and thereafter inputting information on their own research
Subscribe for latest updates
Any user can sign up on the portal and follow keywords or project pages to get latest updates on new projects or updates to project information via email. We integrated with SendInBlue to send out the email notifications.
Summary page for research
Custom template was designed to show information on research (left column) and on researchers (right column)
10000ft powering search or directory
A listing page was created using 10000ft to access database of all research information using filters (keywords, country, name of university, contributors etc), search and sort (by modified date or contributor name).
A user can type in a word(s) to search through the titles and keywords of research projects in the database, and use filters afterwards to narrow your search results.
Crowd sourcing data from community
The database was created bottom-up i.e by contributors signing up to become registered members of the portal and thereafter inputting information on their own research. Once they are registered,
- Contributors can add one or multiple entries by filling up the form
- Contributors can edit or delete the entries added by them but not of other contributors
- Contributors can ‘submit for review’ their entries for admin to approve it
- Contributors can reach out to admin in case they want to disable their entry. It will go back to ‘draft’ status
For better security, all sign-up/ login happens through password-less logins via magic links.
Subscribe for latest updates
Contributors and end users can follow specific keywords or project pages to get latest updates on new projects or updates to project information. We integrated with SendInBlue to send out the email notifications.
Summary page for research
Each research has its own summary page where all details about the research and researcher are listed. A custom template was designed which was best suited to show research information which was mostly in form of key-value pairs.
Report an entry: An end user can report an entry as not relevant, fake or others by filling up the contact form
Metadata Statistics
The homepage shows list of top 10 latest research uploaded and insights from data submitted by contributors. This includes
- Map view total number of research submitted from top universities across the globe.
- Charts showing percentage of research focussing on different themes, geographical focus and sectors studied.
- Word cloud showing most used keywords in the research
