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The OUCS Portal Project

The OUCS Portal Project. OUCS Portal Implementation Group 29 April 2003. Portal hypertension (The Cleveland Clinic). Essentials of a portal. Provides a framework for Retrieving, aggregating (and integrating) information From distributed remote services

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The OUCS Portal Project

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  1. The OUCS Portal Project OUCS Portal Implementation Group 29 April 2003

  2. Portal hypertension(The Cleveland Clinic) Essentials of a portal • Provides a framework for • Retrieving, aggregating (and integrating) information • From distributed remote services • Presenting information according to user preferences “Building portals is not about creating content. It is less about developing functionality than it is about building a coherent presentation of existing content and applications tailored to specific users.”

  3. Claude MonetLe Portail (Effet de Matin). 1894 Essentials of an institutional portal • Portal providing an integrated view (“pocket guide”) of a university’s information resources • For students, teachers, researchers, academic-support, alumni… • From information exposed by departments, colleges, academic services, VLE, student/staff records, external resources

  4. And what a portal is not • Not • Content creation/management system • Replacement for existing processes • A portal is only as good as its content. • The content is only as good as the processes to create/manage it • Developing a portal may result in changing processes but it is not an aim.

  5. Information sources in OxfordStudent

  6. Information sources in OxfordStaff

  7. Information sources in OxfordEveryone

  8. Aims of the OUCS PIG • To gain more experience of portals, Web Services and associated standards • To investigate streamlining existing services and offering a user-centric view of OUCS+ information • To encourage the migration of OUCS internal office processes to the digital information age • Disseminate our and others experiences to the University

  9. Project Plan • Establishing a hardware and software base • Development/demonstrator environments • Service definition • Consultation and catalogue of services • Service standards • How to expose content for channels • Layout and delivery design • Developing XSLT styesheets etc • Access management • Integrating authentication/authorization • OUCS internal office • Audit of information flow

  10. Search your favourite resources Library administration Access/update teaching materials Personal information Digital resources alerts Email access Handbook Deadline alerts Access/update reading lists Campus news OUCS news of all kinds Alerts/Access to Weblearn Access to WING My OxLIP/OLIS Themes/channels by college/dept. Events aggregator Job vacancies Bookmarks Classified adverts Weather Service definitions National survey said: Our survey* said: * Survey based on small number of interviews combined with usefulness and feasibility

  11. uPortal • Open Source portal framework • Developed by JA-SIG HE institutions (with help from Mellon) • Co-ordinates output of content from channels • Implemented as Java servlets; XML/XSLT

  12. Edris EckhardtPortal to Immortality Joining it all up Personalised portal interface XSLT Authentication Authorization RSSSOAPXHTML… Data Channels Metadata Services VLE, OXAM, Herald, OUCSweb, Admin, OLIS, OXLIP, etc People Courses News OUCSData LibraryData Data Athens

  13. Eugène AtgetOld Courtyard, rue Quincampoix Progress to date • Assembled a PIG from across OUCS • (Lou Burnard (chair), Sebastian Rahtz (secretary), Matthew Dovey, Francisco Pinto, Chris Cooper, Peter Robinson, Bruce Shakespeare, Stephen Quinney) • Defined a potential list of services for integration • Parallel investigation of authentication services • Installed uPortal and enrolled in uPortal training • Commenced configuring a demonstrator • Organised a series of portal talks

  14. http://charlotte.oucs.ox.ac.uk:8080/uPortal Screenshots in case the demo fails Demo

  15. uPortal and Weblearn • FAQ: what is the proper relationship? • Weblearn = VLE = place where learning takes place • Portal = framework = channel for alerting; access; based on common AMS • VLE might offer portal-like functions • E.g. what is the relationship between the VLE and Library resources? • Avoid locking content into blackboxes • Does the VLE/Portal/Records System support Open Standards?

  16. Charles MarvilleCathedral de Reims, figures du Grand Portal Timetable • Feb 2003: planning • March 2003: basic templates & RSS • April 2003: integration of LDAP • May 2003: development of selected Web Services • June 2003: demonstrator launched

  17. Fragment: Man in a Portal4th-6th century How you can help • Are you an information provider? • Consider supporting RSS newsfeeds or other XML standards - talk to us about your services • Are you a likely portal user? • Consider expressing an interest in evaluation or consultation - we want to know your needs • Are you a technical developer? • Consider assisting with channel development

  18. A different type of portal

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