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Ruth Martin, Subject Portals Project Manager |
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www.portal.ac.uk/spp |
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2 year project, beginning September 2001 ending
August 2003 |
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Funded by the JISC as part of its 5/99 Learning
and Teaching call |
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Started life as “Subject Access to the DNER” –
acronym SAD! |
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Now known as SPP (mercifully). |
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Tailored view of the web within a particular
subject area |
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Ability to personalise screen and choice of
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Storage of user profiles. |
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Ability to cross-search specially selected
resources |
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Single authentication/authorisation at log-on |
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Additional services: newsfeeds; jobs info;
conferences info; web resource catalogues etc. |
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Project management |
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Cross-searching |
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Account management |
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User profiling |
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Additional services |
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Testing |
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Marketing |
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UKOLN |
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ILRT and hubs |
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ILRT and HUMBUL |
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ILRT |
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EEVL |
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ILRT and hubs |
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UKOLN and hubs |
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Lack of face-to-face communication. Meetings are
time consuming and expensive |
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Partners who do not know each other |
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Different skills, experience, and software
preferences. |
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Risk of producing duplicate or incompatible work |
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Local “distractions” |
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Differing work priorities between developers,
hub managers, and project centre. |
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Project websites and mailing lists |
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MS Project |
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) meetings (archived) |
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And yes, face-to-face meetings. |
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Skills audit |
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Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) |
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Standardised design process using UML and
Rational Rose. |
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Standardised and efficient movement from use
cases to code |
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Versatility: can be used to design complex and
simple procedures |
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Easily understood by techies and non-techies
alike. |
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Still no substitute for face-to-face meetings |
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Still local “distractions” |
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Still differing priorities between the hubs and
the project centre to some extent… |
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…But |
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Movement from project to service, from project
centre to hubs |
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Continuing technical development: |
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exploring the feasibility of embedding portal functions into institutional
portals, VLEs etc. |
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A great team! |
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