Portals: People, Processes, Technology

ISBN-13: 9781856045469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str.

Cbsp Andrew Cox

Opis

First applied to internet gateways such as Yahoo, the concept of the "portal" has evolved in a number of directions. How can information services best take advantage of internet portals to improve access to resources? This collection seeks answers to such questions, providing an overview of how portals are being used.

Spis treści

SECTION 1: CORE THEMES 1. Definitions and debates - Andrew Cox 2. Portals or filters? Identifying quality on the internet - Andrew Madden 3. Portal architectures - Tom Franklin 4. Personalization initiatives in the public and academic domains - Mark Hepworth, Steve Probets, Fadi Qutaishat and Geoff Walton 5. User needs analysis and evaluation of portals - Panayiotis Zaphiris, Aspasia Dellaporta and Dean Mohamedally 6. Managing portal services - Stephen Emmott SECTION 2: THE LIBRARY AND THE PORTAL 7. Ready to use: consumer, subject and other public portals - Ian Winship 8. Portals and university libraries - John A. MacColl 9. Library portals - Ron Davies SECTION 3: THE PORTAL IN THE CORPORATE SECTOR 10. Information at your fingertips: B2E portal as a strategic tool for today’s workforce - Ly Fie Sugianto and Dewi Rooslani Tojib 11. Enterprise information portals - Martin White SECTION 4: PORTALS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 12. Community portals and the e-Confluence Zone: where bottom-up meets top-down - Stephen Musgrave 13. Portal implementation in UK higher education institutions: a comparative analysis - Yvonne Klein 14. MyUU: a case study of the Utrecht University portal - Peter Schelleman SECTION 5: THE FUTURE 15. The future of portals? - Balviar Notay 16. Managing web-based information in an arts and humanities research environment - Jared Bryson 17. Portals and Web 2.0 - Chris Awre.

O autorze

Andrew Cox