Panel session on “Avoiding Portal Wars” given at the IWMW 2002 event.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/talks/panel/
1. Avoiding Portal Wars ™
• Paul Browning, Bristol
• Kriss Fearon, York
• Tony Shaw, Paisley
• Tracey Stanley, Leeds
• Julie Stuckes, UKOLN
™ Paul Helm, Sheffield Hallam
2. What is a portal?
• Aggregates information and applications one stop
shop
• Is personalised or ‘groupilised’ one size does not
fit all
• Aspires to be your desktop on the Web Webtop
A portal:
3. Examples of portals
• Blackboard
• Amazon
• Tesco
• LSE for You
TABS
CHANNELS or PORTLETS
4. What is a portal architecture?
Why bother?
Webified
PIMS
IRIS
BOFINS
BORIS
Coda
Dolphin
Before (i.e. now) …..
Pseudo-
webified
Desk-
toppedInvisible
Lots of stovepipes of
variable length …
Userconfusion?
5. What is a portal architecture?
Aggregation
Webified
PIMS
IRIS
BOFINS
BORIS
Coda
Dolphin
After …..
Pseudo-
webified
Desk-
topped
Extending, bending
and merging the
stovepipes …
PORTALISED
Portal
framework Portal
?
?
Happy User
6. Why might there be problems?
• Cultural issues (ownership, brand)
• Technical (“siloware”)
• Usability
Let’s hear from some different cultures:
MIS
Library
JISC/DNER
VMLE
7. Why might there be problems?
• Cultural issues (ownership, brand)
• Technical (“siloware”)
• Usability
Let’s hear from some different cultures:
MIS
Library
JISC/DNER
VMLE