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What features in a Portal?
Abstract
Analyses the features found in various types of portal, and includes a comparison with the planned features for the JISC Subject Portals.
... Several studies exist that relates to the work described in this paper. The features found in [7] shows some analyses in various types of portals and groups' portals in four different categories (including search engine-based, Internet service provider-based specialist, vertical, and academic). No single portal is likely to serve all the required needs. ...
With the rise of Internet and telecommunication services in recent times, the communication needs of human life have been enhanced progressively. From the earliest times, when communication between people included word of mouth, society evolved from various stages of disseminating information. The problem of insufficient communication and interaction is common in public schools among students and lecturers because of dearth of communication technology. In some schools, communication between faculty members and students are often low. Some students and teachers show resistance to using electronic method of learning and teaching, as a result of several factors including illiteracy. The objective of this study is to develop an intranet portal that handles communication and interaction for a learning institution and also help students improve academically from their comfort zone and outside the lecture hall. The tools engaged in developing this application include ASP.NET and C# as the server side programming, and MySQL as the database. With this application, lecturers and students are able to interact better. The system serves as a medium on which information is communicated and shared. The benefit of using the developed system for effective communication is that it keeps members of the institution regularly updated with current information on happenings and events in the institution. The application will also facilitate collaboration among learners.
... In particular, the research focused on the following: 1) Developing a checklist of functions and features that mark a good open source portal package. This was done by incorporating not only the features identified in the third ASEF research report, but also those listed in the literature evaluating commercial portals, for example Butters (2003) and Keller (2001). 2) Evaluating the functions and features of four candidate open source portal tools to be considered for the ASEF project: Liferay, UPortal, Jetspeed and eXo Platform. ...
Portals have become indispensable for organizations of all types trying to establish themselves on the Web. Unfortunately, there have only been a few evaluative studies of portal software and even fewer of open source portal software. This study aims to add to the available literature in this important area by proposing and testing a checklist for open source portal software evaluation. The study describes the experience of evaluating open source portal software for developing a portal for cultural information exchange. Usng the checklist, four candidate open source portal software packages, namely Jetspeed, uPortal, Liferay Portal and eXo Platform were evaluated. Results indicated that uPortal was the best performer followed by eXo platform, Liferay and Jetspeed. The present work represents a first step in the development of an exhaustive evaluation tool for portals. While the focus of this paper is entirely on open source software, the checklist can also be readily applied to commercial products.
... In this respect, it is worth holding back a bit on the strategic moves one makes, especially when an open source platform is used for development and implementation. Still, the design of a web site for the Information Technology department at the Thessaloniki should not exclude the possibilities for future extensions in the direction of implementing portal-like functionality of the type outlined by Geoff Butter: (a portal is an environment that) brings together content from diverse distributed resources, using technologies such as crosssearching , harvesting, and alerting, and collates this into an amalgamated form for presentation to the user [2]. ...
We report on the experience accumulated by designing a modern web site that is to serve the needs of the academic community at the Information Technology department of the Thessaloniki T.E.I. Along the lines of the requirements specifications set forth by a project funded by the 2 nd European Community Support Framework (EPEAEK, Continuing Training, Action against Exclusion for the Job Market) launched in October 2003, the new web site should (a) comprise a single, 'one-stop' point, serving the information dissemination, exchange and communication needs of the teaching, student, technical, administrative, and alumni user communities, (b) support an easy to use interface, (c) implement modularity by organizing its content (both static and dynamic) and services in a way that reflects the departmental structure (i.e. the department as a whole, plus its divisions, research laboratories, student union, etc.), and (d) support a granular administration scheme, with one administrator, plus a variable number of moderator accounts with localized privileges, one per modular unit involved. At present, the system is not required to support a unified user authentication facility for a number web applications; however, it does come with an integrated facility that synchronizes user passwords across a number of (external) applications.
... Definitions of library portals are hard to find, and even when definitions are clearly stated, the meaning changes over time. Instead of providing a definition, it is useful to look at the features that function in library portals (Straus, 2000; Butters, 2003). In this paper, we will illustrate how some of the library portal functionalities have been implemented in our Desktop Library system. ...
Library Wageningen UR is a relatively small, but highly specialized academic library serving a population of about 5900 researchers and 4700 students in the life sciences. To better serve the needs of our users portal functionality has been introduced gradually to our Desktop Library. A beginning was made with the implementation of portal functionality with the development of subject oriented portal pages, where patrons will find a selection of bibliographies, core journals, reference works and selected websites. There was a need for these pages, since the list of ‘shortcuts’, was found to be too overwhelming for newcomers. However a guided selection system for the library resources failed to meet the requirements of these newcomers to help them with the selection of the right library resources to start their queries. These subject-oriented pages are XML pages generated by queries on our library catalogue. At this moment there are about 110 different subject oriented portal pages. In discussion with our customers the usefulness of these pages has always been stressed, especially for newcomers to the various specialities, but not for the researchers themselves Our second approach to the implementation of portal functionality was the possibility of personalization of library functions. ‘My library’. Personalization means in our case: selection of favourite bibliographies and databases; a virtual lending desk (services of renewals and tracking of reservations); alerts on new additions to the library catalogue and in house created bibliographies; Table of Content alerts for the majority of our journals; SDI alerts for end users on our Ovid/Silverplatter databases; and last but not least, in of May 2003 we introduced world wide access for our patrons to our collection of 4000 electronic journal and databases through EZproxy. This was a long anticipated advancement of the personalization functionality since Library Wageningen UR has a highly mobile internationally oriented client base. Currently about a third of our clientele has subscribed to the various ‘My library’ functionalities. To date we have not introduced ‘one search’ functionalities as they have become the fashion in library portals. Currently a team is working at the implementation of Metalib with SFX. This software will be integrated in the subject oriented portal pages. It is further envisioned that patrons, will be able to construct their own starting page where the customer oriented ‘myLibrary’ functionality will allow users to construct ‘myPortal’. In that case they can selected their favourite journals, reference works, websites etc… The backbone of all these functionalities is our library catalogue build on a Minisis system with custom build web interface based on open URL
Title: 50 Years of LIS Education in North East India
Published on the Occasion of Concluding Session of the Golden Jubilee Celebration, DLISc., Gauhati University
Chief Editor: Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Editors: Tilak Hazarika, Dipen Deka, Badan Barman
Publisher: Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University
Place: Guwahati
Year: 2019
Total Pages: 367
Price: Rs. 800.00
ISBN: 978-81-908708-7-0
The present paper investigates the E-learner's expectations concerning the features incorporated within the user interface screen of an academic digital library. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for the survey. The sample was taken from the E-learners using this technology in Iranian universities. 200 questionnaires were distributed. The data analysis showed a general consensus about the priority of comprehensibility of the terms used in the User Interface Screen (uis) as well as the display features and clarity of the navigational functions as the usability criteria for UIS. ANOVA analysis indicated that, with the exception of navigation and guidance functions, there was no significance with respect to three categories of students. In other words, all students had similar expectations and their ICT skill is not a factor influencing the prioritization of these criteria. The results further indicated that except for the browsing page, there is no significant difference between novice, intermediate and advanced students with respect to search screen features.
The present paper investigates the E-learner’s
expectations concerning the features incorporated within the user
interface screen of an academic digital library. A researcher-made
questionnaire was used for the survey. The sample was taken from the
E-learners using this technology in Iranian universities. 200
questionnaires were distributed. The data analysis showed a general
consensus about the priority of comprehensibility of the terms used in
the User Interface Screen (uis) as well as the display features and
clarity of the navigational functions as the usability criteria for UIS.
ANOVA analysis indicated that, with the exception of navigation and
guidance functions, there was no significance with respect to three
categories of students. In other words, all students had similar
expectations and their ICT skill is not a factor influencing the
prioritization of these criteria. The results further indicated that except
for the browsing page, there is no significant difference between
novice, intermediate and advanced students with respect to search
screen features.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages library and its regional seven regional centers in India are unique in terms of information resources which are specialized in linguistics and Indian languages. Recently the CIIL library was formally inaugurated as the second digital library with a computerized system that allows its users to obtain coherent means of access to organized, electronically stored resources of information on their desktop. The paper attempts to brief the automation and the digitization stages of the CIIL library. For the library automation , an international software package i.e. VIRTUA management system was chosen developed M/S VTLS Onc. Virgina, USA which is certified by ISO 9001 with a main feature of UNICODE support to Indian languages .The library has just completed its retro conversion work. Also other small databases have been prepared for the thesis and dissertation, non-book materials, gratis publications and maps. The software has five menus for the house keeping operations. The package is being used for the day to day operations. Several Information Services has been offered to the staff on intranet. For the digitization of the resources, the available non-book materials are being digitized The CIIL has plans to slowly transform its digital library into a hybrid library with the objective to make make it as a national information centre for linguistics and Indian languages .
A library is a growing organism. As it grows in size the problems associated with the maintenance and security of the documents also grows. The researchers have always helped the librarian in solving their problems. To solve the problems of arranging documents in order they have given classification schemes. To solve the problems of searching documents they have given cataloging guidelines. To solve the problems of space and time they have taught librarians to digitize the documents and share over network. To automate the counter activities they gave us bar-codes. Bar-codes have served the librarians and libraries for a long time, and now it is slowly getting replaced by RFID. This paper discovers the technology, implementation methodologies, advantages and disadvantages of RFID in Library.
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The article sets out a definition of the main functional elements of “portals” as supplied by library management system (LMS) suppliers, also touching on related technology. It lists the benefits and considers continuing issues. It concludes by suggesting the main criteria a library would apply to choosing a system.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the experience of developing a library portal to provide integrated access to research information at the same time as an institutional or enterprise information portal was being implemented.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper presents a case study.
Findings
Valid grounds for implementing vertical, specialised library portals alongside horizontal institutional portals include reduced risk, faster implementation and reduced maintenance costs.
Practical implications
Organisations seeking to provide integrated access to distributed information resources must consider library portals.
Originality/value
This case study reveals that in practice there is little risk of overlap between institutional and library portals. Both types of product are complementary. However, some integration issues remain a challenge.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to relate how Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library integrates its resources and services, the functions realised and technologies adopted in order to meet user's information needs in a simple, convenient and personalised way. As information resources become more web‐based, disparate and distributed, libraries are facing the challenge of how to provide information efficiently to their users. A promising approach is to integrate resources and deliver services via a portal.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper analyses existing portal features, needs and functions, and carries out the approach to meet portal requirements through resource integration and service integration supported by MetaLib, SFX and Web 2.0 technologies.
Findings
Portal requirements can be met by resource integration and service integration. Methods to achieve cross searching, ways to enhance resource linking, and integration of library, subject and personalisation services are analysed and concluded. The service framework is depicted in the end.
Research limitations/implications
Since the analysis is not based on an exhaustive list of portals and as technologies are always developing rapidly, the methods and functions to achieve information integration and provision presented in this paper perhaps are not complete and may need to be adjusted and amended. Work is also needed urgently to develop and establish related standards and protocols for service collaboration.
Practical implications
This paper should be helpful for libraries that plan to provide services to their users via information portals, or to develop or evaluate portal systems or products.
Originality/value
This paper analyses and concludes methods and functions to meet portal requirements through resource integration and service integration supported by MetaLib, SFX and Web 2.0 technologies. It discusses the service collaboration and depicts the service framework.
The SPEIR (Scottish Portals for Education, Information and Research) project was funded by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). It ran from February 2003 to September 2004, slightly longer than the 18 months originally scheduled and was managed by the Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR). With SLIC’s agreement, community stakeholders were represented in the project by the Confederation of Scottish Mini-Cooperatives (CoSMiC), an organisation whose members include SLIC, the National Library of Scotland (NLS), the Scottish Further Education Unit (SFEU), the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), regional cooperatives such as the Ayrshire Libraries Forum (ALF)1, and representatives from the Museums and Archives communities in Scotland.
Aims; A Common Information Environment For Scotland
The aims of the project were to:
o Conduct basic research into the distributed information infrastructure requirements of the Scottish Cultural Portal pilot and the public library CAIRNS integration proposal;
o Develop associated pilot facilities by enhancing existing facilities or developing new ones;
o Ensure that both infrastructure proposals and pilot facilities were sufficiently generic to be utilised in support of other portals developed by the Scottish information community;
o Ensure the interoperability of infrastructural elements beyond Scotland through adherence to established or developing national and international standards.
Since the Scottish information landscape is taken by CoSMiC members to encompass relevant activities in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and related domains, the project was, in essence, concerned with identifying, researching, and developing the elements of an internationally interoperable common information environment for Scotland, and of determining the best path for future progress.
This paper explores the planning and creation of one emerging technology – a social sciences vertical portal (vortal) – at Wayne State University, and how this vortal fosters and supports research communities by discussing the areas crucial to the vortal’s success: content, audience, usability, awareness, and assessment. Title VI National Resource Center Grant (P015A060066) University of Toronto, Library International Federation of Library Associations University of Illinois, Library University of Toronto, Faculty of Information unpublished not peer reviewed
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