3.4 Publishing Collected Data The reason for compiling and organizing all of the data, past and present, was to provide insight into the changes occurring in the retail sector of Venice. Since the stores and accommodations were used as lens to see the core issues of the city, we needed to make the data and our findings available to the general public and to present it in a persuasive and intuitive way. To accomplish this goal, we created three types of web pages for Venipedia: primary plural pages for the stores and tourist accommodations, secondary plural pages for the stores categories by product type, and individual pages for all of the establishments throughout the six sestieri. We created two primary plural pages for the stores and tourist accommodations containing a brief history of the development and evolution of the retail sector in Venice, the changing patterns in the number, type and locations of stores, the NACE coding system employed by our project, and links to the secondary plural pages for each type of store. The secondary plural pages contain a brief description of each type of store or accommodation, patterns in changes, and a map showing all of the individual stores or accommodations found within that category, and links to the individual store pages. The individual pages contain all of the data collected for each storefront since 2004, including name, product type, NACE code, operating hours, additional notes, and the picture. The pages are organized by store location and show the history of the stores at that location. In order to create the individual pages, the data and pictures we collected were uploaded to City Knowledge (CK) Console, which allowed us to store and manage the data. We were then able to link the pictures to the data file and create a template for the individual pages of the stores and tourist accommodations. We edited the layout of the template and CK Console automatically generated the web pages for Venipedia. Examples of these pages can be found in Appendix K.
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