Building Community oriented Portals:
Academic Portal solutions and
REIS Initiative
Notes from the Panel at DESIRE II Web Indexing Workshop
May 14, 2000 at DelftTU Library, Delft
Outlines. Draft v.0.1
REIS Initiative
(REsearch Indexing Service for Europe)
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Started from BoF at TNNC’99
http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/
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Main goal - to build pilot service
for Research and Education community in Europe
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Specific REIS features
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Comprehensive coverage of Research-on-the-web
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Both searchable and browsable
by subject
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Interactive search refinement
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Finding Authoritative Resources
- "Topic Distillation"
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Adaptive crawling and automatic
(pre-)classification of gathered data
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Attribute (metadata) searching
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Dublin Core metadata search capability
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Multilinguality and cross-language
searching
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Multilingual support in interface
TERENA Academic
Portal Initiative/Project (TAP)
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To supersede REIS
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Answer on vital needs of R&A
community in specific Information Service
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Main components
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Indexing/Searching tools/engine
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Cross-Searching Automatic Indexes
and human-made Subject Gateways
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Directory services
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Video-on-Demand and Streaming
(plus hosting)
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Content Replication
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Portal as an access point to all
what’s behind the Portal
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All what community uses, develops
and needs
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Multilsite and multihome for services
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Collaborative vs distributed
Academic Portal
goals
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Community oriented Portal
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Binding and assisting specific
community
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Virtual community with its Knowledge
accumulation and domain specific resources
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Research diversification and knowledge
accumulation
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Assistive services/tools for Researchers
and Educators
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building authorities in new domains
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discovering knowledge/resources
in European/worldwide Internet
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Cooperation with industry
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to help research community
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to provide feedback and input
from research community
What do people
need from Academic Portal?
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Information in specific research
area
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new and diverse areas not covered
by existing classification and Subject Gateways
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(Virtual) Community interaction
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Possibility to talk to expert
(become bound into community)
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to communicate with people
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to find colleagues
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Video/audio materials
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Build personal profiles and exchange
of experience and findings
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Shared bookmark - to accumulate
highly professional experience
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Access to Open Research area
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Assistive tools
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Automatic classification and knowledge
mining
Academic Portal
as Community Oriented Portal
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To build successful Portal you
need to find/build proper community
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Community membership creates willingness
to cooperate in resources and services creation and development
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Bottom-up vs Top-down approach
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Possibility to communicate between
people (community members)
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create cooperative environment
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virtual (point of) presence
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Finding relevant resources in
diverse areas
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Starting with specific area and
specific services in general concept
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Ask and propose to users
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user needs driven approach
Academic
Portal Value-Added Services
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Combined with communication between
researches
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to explore common finding
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building virtual community/presence
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Knowledge Accumulation and Dissemination
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Quality Information Resources
enabled by "web-of-trust"
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Advertisement from and linkage
to the Scientific publishers
Visual Information
in Education and Research
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Conferences video archives vs
Conference Proceedings
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Q&A – Parallel sessions –
(Parallel conferences)
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Devoted lectures/seminars –
Ad Hoc topics
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Lectures by expert specialists
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Exchange with both teacher and
auditorium
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Distance Education and Training
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Courses on demand
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Hands-on and practical lessons
(e.g., surgery, fiber cabling, etc.)
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Virtual classroom
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Distinctive features
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Live video/speech
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Information humanisation/impersonalisation
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Still paper-like information vs
train-of-thought
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Virtual presence
Where are
we going to go today?
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Promote use of Video and Streaming
services/archives
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in knowledge rich/generating areas
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Among universities and research
institutions
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Conferences
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Extend VoD and Streaming hosting
Services
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Maintain Directory of available
resources
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