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Marieke Guy, UKOLN |
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Jasper Tredgold, ILRT |
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Originally |
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2 year project funded by JISC as part of the
5/99
Learning and Teaching programme ended August 2003 |
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Started life as “Subject Access to the DNER”
(SAD!) – research project which developed prototype subject portals for
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SPP phase II runs from Sep 2003 – August 2004 |
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Part of the JISC Portals programme |
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Definition |
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Technically, a portal is a network service
that brings together content from diverse distributed resources using
technologies such as cross searching, harvesting, and alerting, and
collates this into an aggregated form for presentation to the user, usually
via a website. (JISC) |
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Single Point of Access for particular audience |
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Broad array of resources and services brought
together from 1 source |
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Sense of community |
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Customisation, personalisation, integration |
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Portal Types - Subject Portals, Data Type
Portals, User Community Portals, Institutional Portals… |
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Current UK HE/FE Information Environment |
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Lots of disparate information services |
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Each with its own user interface |
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Many interfaces to learn, search, and to keep up
to date with |
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JISC 5 Year Strategy for the IE |
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Clear need to enhance discovery of and access to
content |
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Concept: to provide seamless discovery across
multiple content providers |
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The portalisation of RDN services |
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To provide seamless access to a range of subject
based information resources for users in the UK Higher and Further
Education community (and beyond) |
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Can use same technology to surface subject based
content in third party environments e.g. Institutional portals, VLEs |
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Core |
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Authentication |
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Customisation |
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User data storage |
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Portlets |
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Searching |
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Newsfeeds |
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Alerting |
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National Scheme |
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Athens Single Sign On |
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Authorisation profile |
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Local Scheme |
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LDAP |
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Account creation |
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RDN-wide profile |
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Portal customisation provided by framework |
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Navigation |
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Look and feel |
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Portlet selection and layout |
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Portlet customisation provided by portlet |
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API hooks |
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Parallel cross searching |
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Z39.50 mainly, but extensible |
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Newsfeed searching, alerting |
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Athens compliant |
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Single consistent interface |
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Search history |
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Record storage |
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Newsfeeds |
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RSS1.0 extensible |
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Events, subject information |
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Searchable |
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Alerting |
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Email alerts available to registered users |
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Created from user’s subject interests and
selected sources |
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Newsfeed based, but extensible |
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http://www.portal.ac.uk/spp/demo/ |
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Portlets and portals |
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Installation choices |
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Non-framework specific |
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freeing us to embed portlets in other portal
environments, i.e. uPortal |
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Demonstrator based on Apache Jetspeed portal
framework |
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Emerging portal standards |
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JSR168 |
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Java portlet standard |
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WSRP |
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Remote portlet communication protocol |
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Portals aggregate remote portlets |
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Ongoing maintenance and further development of
the portal services |
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Development of additional services |
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Installation of beta portal software at the 8
RDN sites |
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uPortal integration |
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Open Source |
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Surfacing content elsewhere |
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VLEs, Institutional portals |
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Looking at the outcomes from other JISC
programmes (DiVLE, FAIR, X4L) |
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Investigate interaction between portals and
shared services (IESR) |
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Evaluation of the impact on users |
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Exit strategy |
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Notes