• Forum content search tool
• Summary of the search options
• Documents available in the content base
• A step furter
  • Forum topics
  • Speakers
  • Dialogues
  • About the content base

You have the chance to search the content base of the Dialogues using a search engine that enables you to access easily and quickly all the available information.

The search engine includes a guided mode, which will allow you to perform 3-parameter searches (Themes, Speakers and Dialogues), and a free mode system, which finds a specific word in the body of documents:

• Forum Topics: Do you wish to find out what was said about a specific theme in the Forum Dialogues? This option allows you to narrow down your search for a key word. Intermix your selected theme with another subject matter to obtain documents containing the key words in both topics.
• Speakers: Search for the contributions of a specific speaker to the Dialogues.
• Dialogues: Find out about the contents and conclusions of a Dialogue.
• Free search: Find the documents containing the key word entered in the search engine

Once you have selected a document you will find links to related documents or to any key word indexing the selected document.

DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE IN THE CONTENT BASE

• Dialogue summary: Summary prepared by the Forum team containing the highlights of the Dialogue.
• Strong idea: Resulting ideas and concepts that bear consequences over the open debate on current world issues.
• Dialogue conclusions: Document containing agreements, statements and conclusions, if any, of the Dialogue.
• Presentation: Documents prepared beforehand by the speakers consisting of the contents or a guide to their presentation in the Dialogue.
• Video: dialogue highlights (interviews, press conferences, statements, etc.). Requires Realplayer.
• Press releases: News pieces related to the contents and participants in the Forum Dialogues.
• Session summaries: a description of the most relevant contents of a specific session of a dialogue.

FORUM TOPICS

Each topic has associated key words indexing the documents. Each document is indexed with several key words related to different themes allowing you to find the same document in different theme searches.

Therefore once a specific topic has been selected you can narrow down your key word search, displaying only the documents indexed with the selected key word. E.g. Culture identity and diversity (Topic) > Cultural development (key word) would display only documents indexed with the key word Cultural development.

Therefore once a specific topic has been selected you can narrow down your key word search, displaying only the documents indexed with the selected key word. E.g. Culture identity and diversity (Topic) > Cultural development (key word) would display only documents indexed with the key word Cultural development.

You can also perform a combined search by intermixing the select topic with another subject matter to display the documents containing key words included in both topics (that is, displaying the documents common to both themes). E.g. Culture identity and diversity (selected topic) vs Human rights, justice and exclusions (related topic) results in 234 documents containing key words common to both topics.

Furthermore links to related themes are displayed in every topic.

SPEAKERS

This option allows you to access all the information related to a specific speaker, be it because the speaker is the author (presentations) or because the speaker has been mentioned (press releases, videos, etc.) as well as highlighting the dialogues in which he took part. The file contains the speaker’s profile, if available.

On the main web page select the initial of the speaker’s surname. You will then be directed to a new page containing a list of all the speakers with that initial. By selecting a speaker of your interest you will be directed to the aforementioned information.

DIALOGUES

Select a dialogue to access the dialogue file. Displayed in the file is an external link to the dialogue’s website (if available), a presentation and technical information document and a dialogue programme document

Displayed next is a summary of the dialogue and the conclusions, assessments and statements prepared by the technical team of the dialogue.

Below it you will find the rest of the available information on the dialogue. You can either visualise the whole file or you can filter it by using the key word section on the right side of the file.

The file contains the name of the speakers in the dialogue and a link to the dialogue videos (requires Realplayer).

ABOUT THE CONTENT BASE:

• The Forum content base places all the dialogue-related information in a single site which is linked, integrated and of open conception.
• The conceptualisation and design of the interfaces and routes in the content base are based on transverse issues and themes (following the same logic of the Forum Dialogues). From these it is possible to ponder possible solutions in a complex flexible way from different points of view.
• The strategy of capturing knowledge, together with the work done to interconnect it and to turn it into a connection and proximity network, enables us to define the content base not as a collection of texts and materials but as a complex integrated whole. This is one of its basic underlying values. It is not a documentary file. It is rather an ever-changing set of contents. And so the content base constitutes a large content source functioning not only as proof and legacy of the Dialogues but also turning it into a first-level source of the current state of the world.
• The content base contains a summary of the dialogues and of some of the main sessions; innovative or emerging ideas and concepts (strong ideas); press releases; presentations, videos and speakers’ profiles as well as other significant documents (conclusions, agreements, statements, assessments, etc.).

Analysis criteria of the Content base
• Exhaustiveness: We have covered all the Forum Dialogues by setting up a complex operation system and a recovery methodology with the collaboration of the narrators (public university students), ensuring the later recovery of the most relevant information.
• Originality: Normally there is no place in the same debate arena for the kind of practical applied reflections aimed specifically at dealing with current world issues in order to find solutions by learning from ongoing experiences and differing opinions. Therefore the format and contents offered by the content base are more applicable and multidisciplinary, qualitatively different to the contents of other websites that provide academic and scientific information.
• Diversity: The multidisciplinary approach to themes dealt with, the plurality of opinions and the search for ways of facing up to global challenges have been a common factor.
• Transversality: To represent this richness of approaches to a single aspect the content abse allows users to make a transverse interpretation by themes or key words, dialogues and speakers, intermixing themes and suggesting related documents.
• Quality: The quality of the contents is guaranteed by the renown of the participants in the Forum Dialogues. Their set of published materials forms a high-level body of knowledge.