Oxford Fresco

Oxford Fresco will be a stable, secure and flexible platform for the University and will be the preferred platform for all the University’s public-facing web content including OxWeb, the University's main website.

Oxford Fresco will provide improved, flexible tooling for content owners and creators to deliver quality sites for wide-ranging audience needs. It will replace the Mosaic platform, and providing a new platform for OxWeb (both in need of upgrading).  The project is working to provide a best-in-class solution to ensure that user journeys across the University’s web estate can provide the best digital experience possible for our audiences by optimising content, design and user experience.

This 'future proofing' will ensure we have ongoing support and ease future upgrades.

While the aim is to create a University-wide platform, initially this will impact those sites currently on Drupal 7-based Mosaic and Oxweb.

Oxford Fresco Pilot

Our pilot of the new Oxford Fresco platform ran from March to June 2024 and enabled us to evaluate our proposed technical solution and gain a greater understanding of the nature and extent of the change and what that will mean for colleagues across the University.

The areas represented on the pilot were:

• Bodleian Library - Gardens Libraries and Museums
• Primary Care Health Sciences, Medical Sciences
• History Faculty, Humanities
• Department for Continuing Education
• Kellogg College
• Research Support Team, IT Services, UAS
• CMS Platform Team, IT Services, UAS

The positive result of the pilot has enabled the continued development of the platform and contributed user insights into build areas and priorities.

Project Governance

The project is overseen by the WebCMS Project Board under the governance for the Transforming Oxford’s Digital Communications Programme.  Further information on this is provided on our programme page.

We are engaging web content owners and creators during the course of the project to ensure they are as informed and involved as possible.  Our Oxford Fresco Web CMS User Group, comprising academic division, UAS, GLAM and college representatives, was initiated in September 2024 and will be providing feedback into the new platform as it continues to be developed.

Further Information

If you have any further questions, please check our Frequently Asked Questions or, if you are unable to find what you need there, please email us at transforming digitalcommsprogramme@it.ox.ac.uk

In December 2023, we initiated a series of sessions for current Mosaic users to find out more about this project and the development of the new intranet.  Copies of the slide packs and a recording of our most recent session are provided below.

Presentation slides:

13/14 December 2023

19 February 2024

17 April 2024

Recording - 17th April 2024

Where we provided an update on, and a short demonstration of, the new pilot web CMS platform and further information about the development of the new intranet.