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myColumbia Status Report March 10, 2004 Digital Library Seminar Series. What is a Portal?. Internet portals provide a variety of useful services, web applications and web links personalized for each specific user or group of users. My Yahoo is an example of a popular
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myColumbia Status Report March 10, 2004 Digital Library Seminar Series
What is a Portal? Internet portals provide a variety of useful services, web applications and web links personalized for each specific user or group of users. My Yahoo is an example of a popular Internet portal that may be customized by the user.
What is uPortal? • A collaborative “open source” portal project with contributions shared among JA-SIG member institutions. • Two hundred higher education institutions and vendors (e.g., Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa State, Stanford, UBC) in the JA-SIG. • Over 100 university and college portal implementations in seven countries. Over thirty more are pre-production. • uPortal is No. 4 in InfoWorld magazine's Top 100 visionary information technology projects of 2003.
What is myColumbia? • An Intranet portal for various University communities, large and small (students, administrators, alumni, committees, departments, etc.) • A community toolset—to include announcements, forums, file sharing, surveys, and so on--that builds relationships and fosters communication among campus constituencies 3) A productivity tool giving customized access to information and online business processes • An enterprise application integration platform
Potential Student / Faculty Portal Content • Student Services – Student Services On-Line, Financial dashboard, academic information, etc….? • AcIS – Announcements, helpdesk, rhno, accounts, network status, email status, disk use, vacation message, forwarding, CourseWorks, printing status, computer sales, student group support, grace period support, etc….? • Dean of Students – Clubs, events, messaging, classified…? • CCNMTL – Courseware, etc.? • Libraries – Voyager? Journals? “Newsstand? Other…
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