Showcase: how a knowledge page is built

A sample page that uses every block a researcher can add: text, image, gallery, video, highlights, quote, map, sources and downloads.

By Sample content (demo)

See Mediterranean Sea in the geoportal Then switch on: Group 1: Seagrass beds

Sample Sample content — created to show how the Knowledge Platform works. It is not an official Life Mapper publication.

© Frédéric Ducarme · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

One page, every block

This page exists to show what a knowledge page can contain. Researchers build it in the editor from blocks, top to bottom, and the site lays them out. Every block below is a different type.

Image block: a single photo with its caption and credit. Posidonia oceanica at La Ciotat, France.
Image block: a single photo with its caption and credit. Posidonia oceanica at La Ciotat, France. © Frédéric Ducarme · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Gallery block

  • Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1826)
  • Yellow encrusting anemones (Parazoanthus axinellae) in the Faille du Soldat - Frioul Archipelago, Marseille - Freediving exploration
  • Gorgonia (Eunicella gazella), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2022-07-19, DD 72
Three Mediterranean hard-bottom species: red gorgonian, yellow cluster anemone and white gorgonian. © Parent Géry · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons — © Karim saari · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons — © Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
"Posidonia oceanica, let's look after it", LIFE SEPOSSO (ISPRA). YouTube loads only after you accept embedded media. ISPRA — LIFE SEPOSSO

A quote block sets a short statement apart from the text, with its source.

— Sample quote for layout purposes

Sources block: resources cited at this point

Below the content

After the blocks the page shows its Go deeper sources, its downloadable attachments, its external links, its catalogue tags and the related pages.

Map block: a layer picked from the list, here Posidonia oceanica meadows over the EMODnet bathymetry around Corsica and Sardinia.
Map block: a layer picked from the list, here Posidonia oceanica meadows over the EMODnet bathymetry around Corsica and Sardinia.Layer: MEDISEH – Posidonia oceanica meadows · © EMODnet Bathymetry Consortium, CC BY 4.0 · MEDISEH via EMODnet Seabed Habitats, CC BY 4.0Open this area in the geoportalThen switch on:Group 1: Seagrass bedsAlso in the EMODnet Map Viewer

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