User Manual FORECASTER River restoration GEO

1 General outline of the tool

1.1 Who are the potential users?

The tool is meant to guide practitioners to information of ongoing and finished restoration

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projects. Basically the users are the water- or river managers, but this can be regarded in a broad sense. Beside river authorities other actors in the field are also potential users; scientists on the other hand are urged to share information.

The basic format is a Wiki, well-known from the Wikipedia formula. The system is designed to facilitate everybody to enter information that will be available immediately to the community. The information can be added to or changed by anyone at any given time.

1.2 What information is contained?

Basically, information regarding restoration case studies are the core of the

FORECASTER tool. The case studies are inputted in a geographical (google maps) and a text database. The latter is a fact sheet containing general data of each case study. The combination of a geographical image and a fact sheet makes it possible to make various selections possible, also geographical. Additionally, each case study has its own wiki page, where the case is described in depth. On this page a description of the case and information on evaluation results can be found, documents with background information can be downloaded and pictures can be seen.

Remember, anything relevant can be added, that’s the power of wiki.

1.3 How to read this manual

In the manual, keywords for Menu items or other functions in Windows or Wiki are always given in Bold. If a series of clicks is required for accessing a certain menu item, the path towards it is given as File > Save. Meaning the user should click on menu item File and choose Save. Text you need to input is given in italics.

1.4 Getting started: Registration

Before you are ready to add data to the FORECASTER wiki, you have to register to be able to login. Press the login / create account link located at the top-right of the

FORECASTER page. Then press create an account and fill in the registration page.

Once you are registered you can create and edit wiki-pages. For adding case studies, your account must be approved by an administrator to avoid malicious use of the database-tool. For instructions see the database page in the FORECASTER web tool.

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Restoration is used as the general term, however also rehabilitation and mitigation is meant here.

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