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Portals : People, Processes, Technology.
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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Facet Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Contents; Introductory preface; Section 1 Core themes; 1 Definitions and debates; Definitions; Related concepts; People and portals; References; 2 Portals or filters? Identifying quality on the internet; Introduction; A change of role; Affordances; Old literacies; An abundance of broadcasts; Lowering of barriers; Searching for quality; Interacting with information; Communities both virtual and real; Summary and conclusion; References; 3 Portal architectures; Introduction; What is a portal?; Portal architectures; Single (or simplified) sign-on; Integration of systems.
- Integration solutionsService-based solutions; Issues; Portal developments in UK higher education; Actions to take now; Bibliography; Notes; 4 Personalization initiatives in the public and academic domains; Introduction; Levels and forms of personalization; Examples of personalization; Corporate environment; Academic environment; Information literacy; Health sector; The personalization effects; Some underlying technologies; Standards; The future; References; 5 User needs analysis and evaluation of portals; Introduction; Knowledge elicitation and usability/accessibility evaluation theory.
- Incremental usability and accessibility evaluation frameworkMethods of HCI knowledge elicitation practices; Case study; Conclusion; References; 6 Managing portal services; Introduction; Management themes; Issues; Conclusions; Bibliography; Section 2 The library and the portal; 7 Ready to use: consumer, subject and other public portals; Introduction; Consumer portals; Subject and other portals; Conclusion; Bibliography; 8 Portals and university libraries; The promise of libraries; The arrival of portals; University library portals: historical development; Customizable portals.
- Integration and portalsConclusion; Notes; 9 Library portals; Introduction; Services offered by a library portal; Development of library portals; Challenges and outcomes of implementing portals; Future developments; Conclusion; References; Section 3 The portal in the corporate sector; 10 Information at your fingertips: B2E portal as a strategic tool for today's workforce; Introduction; Portal market; B2E portal characteristics; Benefits and drawbacks; Trends in B2E portals; Concluding remarks; References; 11 Enterprise information portals; Introduction.
- Integrating structured and unstructured informationThe birthday of EIP; EIP functionality; EIP standards; EIP vendors; All that glistens is not gold; Making the business case for an EIP; Implementation; In conclusion; Resources; Section 4 Portals in the public sector; 12 Community portals and the e-Confluence Zone: where bottom-up meets top-down; Introduction; Community portals; Factors affecting portal development; People, technology and purpose; Civic portal and civil portal; An e-Confluence Zone; Conclusion; References.