UNESCO IIEP Curated Library

We worked with UNESCO International Institute of Educational Planning (IIEP) to build a new online library housing a curated collection of resources for educational planners and decision-makers including tools, research reports, declarations, and programme evaluations. The library lists materials from a wide range of organisations including UNESCO and other UN agencies, NGOs, ministries, development agencies, universities, in a range of formats.

• We built the new library in Drupal, UNESCO's requirement, and created a custom visual design using UNESCO and IIEP visual identity. 
• The website is available in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese)
• The initial collection contains around 3,000 resources which were imported and mapped to a new structure from three different existing databases, we assisted IIEP to revise their info architecture and classifications, and to assign existing resources to the new scheme.
• We installed a custom filtered search, with search history and custom function to export a basket of selected results in a range of data formats, email or print, or to reference management software, as well as RSS feed and social sharing. 
• Analytics and GDPR compatible cookie management.

The library complies with IIEP IT technical guidelines, including in hosting, storage, staging, and deploying, and W3C standards of accessibility, performance, and quality. Its built-in  responsiveness provides an optimal user experience by presenting the simplest and most fluid navigation and accessibility experience possible for the greatest number of people. We worked with IIEP staff to create user roles for website editors, and custom tools to bulk import and curate data and taxonomies, and for data auditing and cleansing. The Library integrates with UNESCO IIEP web architecture and we collaborated with UNESCO technical staff to launch on the new library on UNESCO online systems in Summer 2025.