BIOVoices multistakeholder on-line social platform: v2.0

This document provides a description of the Deliverable "D5.2 BIOVoices multistakeholder on line social platform: V2.0", which is the configured on-line BIOVoices social platform (version V2) representing the technical infrastructure for managing participatory tools, co-production of contents, knowledge and co-creation, initiatives launching, creative spaces creation, etc., supporting on-line communities (starting from e-communities already existing in the bio-based sector, and applicable in other application domains) in their work and common work. This deliverable evolves the deliverable "D5.1 - BIOVoices multistakeholder on line social platform: V1.0" released at month 6, that provided a description of the first version of the platform. One important role of the BIOVOCES Social platform consists in facilitating some users'social activities, both as a consumer and as a provider of online information, services and knowledge, such as: o users as provides can: o organize and manage Discussion group, Events, BIOVOICES Mobilization and Mutual Learning workshops, (enabling management of calendars for discussion groups, managing the registration to the MMLs and Events, enabling discussions, co-producing knowledge that remains openly accessible, enabling pro-active participation to any on-line activity in the platform using e-mails, chat messages as explained in the next points). Some discussion spaces can also be managed within restricted groups or used as private working space, enabling to manage intermediate steps of knowledge building processes. o Share information on biobased products, documents organized in online libraries, videos, and News, o contribute in an online discussion, sharing information, videos, chat messages, documents, streaming, etc. (role provider), through a registered account and login. o users (role consumer) can consult information present in the platform without the need to register/login. This platform is supportive and complementary with respect to all the other methods that can be used for engaging people in the BIOVOICES community and for discussing and sharing contents and co-build knowledge. The platform enables to directly access the contents from Discussion group, Events, BIOVOICES Mobilization and Mutual Learning workshops, digital libraries or to access information about the projects on Bioeconomy linking to the Cordis database. Moreover, it is possible to retrieve any content searching a term in the whole platform, or by a semantic search (as an ontology has been defined, improving the first version of the ontology defined in the deliverable "D5.3 Population of the BIOVoices multistakeholder on line platform with contents Report (first version)". The BIOVoices multistakeholder on line social platform: V2.0 is available online at: https://www.biovoices-platform.eu The user manual of the current version (V2) of the platform, is in the appendix and it is available at: https://www.biovoices-platform.eu/registeredarea/discussiongroups/viewDiscussiongroup/534 The functionalities already included in the first version of the BIOVoices multistakeholder on line social platform have been improved in this second version, while, some other have been added as explained in the conclusion.