Portals : people, processes, and technology / edited by Andrew Cox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Andrew, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web portals.

Internet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Facet, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First applied to internet gateways such as Yahoo, the concept of the portal" has evolved in a bewildering number of directions. Different themes of personalization, aggregation or integration seem to have dominated our understanding of what a portal should be at different times. Many organizations and institutions have borrowed the idea from the net to address local problems of integrating and presenting information sources to users - yet they have developed the concept in different ways. Meanwhile new models seem to be constantly emerging from the internet. Tracking this evolving concept is clearly of particular concern for information services. How can they best take advantage of internet portals to improve access to resources? What are the requirements for delivery of diverse content through a local portal? And how do portals run by libraries relate to wider organizational initiatives? This edited collection seeks answers to these questions, providing the library and broader information community with an overview of how portals are currently being used.

Contents:

Core themes. Definitions and debates / Andrew Cox

Portals or filters? Identifying quality on the internet / Andrew Madden

Portal architectures / Tom Franklin

Personalization initiatives in the public and academic domains / Mark Hepworth, Steve Probets, Fadi Qutaishat and Geoff Walton

User needs analysis and evaluation of portals / Panayiotis Zaphiris, Aspasia Dellaporta and Dean Mohamedally

Managing portal services / Stephen Emmott. The library and the portal. Ready to use : consumer, subject and other public portals / Ian Winship

Portals and university libraries / John A. MacColl

Library portals / Ron Davies. The portal in the corporate sector. Information at your fingertips : B2E portal as a strategic tool for today's workforce / Ly Fie Sugianto and Dewi Roosiani Tojib

Enterprise information portals / Martin White. Portals in the public sector. Community portals and the e-confluence zone : where bottom-up meet top-down / Stephen Musgrave

Portal implementation in UK higher education institutions : a comparative analysis / Yvonne Klein

MyUU : a case study of the Utrecht University portal / Peter Schelleman. The future. The future of portals? / Balviar Notay

Managing web-based information in an arts and humanities research environment / Jared Bryson

Portals and web 2.0 / Chris Awre.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781856049832

1856049833

OCLC:

868272227