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Gender Issues and the Built Environment
1st July 2008
Womens Design Service and Queen Mary University launch a website database of resources.
Gendersite provides a route to all the information needed to gain a better understanding of gender issues in the built environment. The site lists books, bibliographies, broadcasts, conference papers, journals, reports, unpublished PhDs and more.
Gendersite was comissioned by
• Womens Design Service. Women’s Design Service was founded in 1987 to work to ensure that the design and use of the built environment reflects the needs and aspirations of women.
• Queen Mary, University of London. Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions
• Urban Buzz. UrbanBuzz is a knowledge transfer programme funding a whole range of projects around the theme of sustainable communities.
Fat Beehive were commissioned by the Womens Design Service to develop the website. The heart of the website is a Resource Database, a searchable and browsable database for the website visitor by keyword, title, author and category.
The database has been developed to be highly flexible to cater for future additions to the database in formats that aren't currently known. To this end, administrators can obviously add new and edit existing resources. But they can also add and edit the categories and keywords. New keywords are simple added to the list and are available to apply to a new resource.
Categories attract a range of fields that are used to describe the item. For example, a published book features author, publisher and ISBN fields among others; a journal features title, series and ISSN fields, again, among others. Administrators can set up new categories and apply fields to the new category. New fields can be added to the list of available fields, meaning the whole system gives great flexibility and future-proofs the development.
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