JISC Information Environment

Portal-related services, activities and projects

• RDN Subject Portals Project
• HERO
• PORTAL
• Xgrain
• uPortal
• HEIRPORT
• The Scout Portal Toolkit

Background information and other resources

• JISC Information Environment
• JISC IE technical architecture
• JISC Portals Programme and Portals FAQ
• Portals & Portal Frameworks - University of Bristol
• EDNER issues papers
• JISC IE baseline portal functional specification
• JISC Technology Watch Report: Library orientated portals solutions
• JISC Technology Watch Report: Java Portals
• Archives of the portals@jiscmail.ac.uk list
• Portals, PORTALs Everywhere - Ariadne, issue 33
• GILS Search Portals
• UK uPortal User Workshop, Hull, November 2002
• JA-SIG UK Web Site

Mini Service Registry

Pointers to stuff that can be integrated into portals:

Z39.50 targets

• Z-Directory - UK - Maintained by UKOLN
• Z39.50 target directory - Worldwide - Maintained by Index Data

RSS channels

• RSS-xpress - UK - Maintained by UKOLN [Now deprecated]

OAI repositories

• Registered OAI data providers - Worldwide - Maintained by OAI

Other

• Google Web APIs (beta)
• Working with the RDN[No longer available]
• XMethods registry of SOAP services