Affiliates

Most services require an area to place information and logos from your sponsors/affiliates/collaborators/endorsers. To ensure consistency across EMBL-EBI sites and services we work within the page structure guidance and are mindful that display of these logos and information is consistent and understandable while keeping them visible but not obtrusive to the core reason a user visists a site: to use the service itself.

Our sites often show a number of relationships with outside entities:

Parent organisation
For EMBL-EBI compliant sites the parent organisation (EMBL-EBI) shows in #masthead-black-bar on the right side.
Funders & collaborators
These logos should be placed in the #local-footer, you can see an example in this page's footer.
Endorsement affiliate

This relationshop can be highlighted in one of two places on a website, the top right or the local footer. ELIXIR -- as demonstrated in the top right and banner below -- is an example of an endorsement relationship that applies to some EMBL-EBI services.

Which placement (top right or lower banner) you should use will likely depend on the structure of your service. For services that use the breadcrumb, it may be appropriate for this badge to appear on most pages. If you use the lower banner, you may wish to limit its showing to your service homepage and the about pages.

Not sure if you have an endorsement affiliate?

  • The logo will make the user feel reassured about the sustainability and quality of the current site or resource.
  • An objective is to promote the a unifying entity.
  • When the user clicks on the graphic, they should learn something about what the affiliated organisation is.
  • They are quite rare and if you do have an endorsing affiliate, it's unlikely to be more than one.

ELIXIR Banner

For identified EMBL-EBI services that are part of the ELIXIR network, you should add the below banner with text appropriate to your relationship with ELIXIR (Note: As of October 2017 we are still awaiting final guidance on the text to be used). For guidance on how to add the banner, see this pattern

Recommendations

Services should have a page at /about/relationships page for a consistent place to explain the nuance of any relationships, while also acting as truth about how the service functions with other parties.

For questions about how best to integrate your relationships, you can reach out to the Web Development team or the Web Guidelines Committee.