Community Web Portals References

Web Portals Examples

News and Press Articles

Portals from the Higher Education Perspective: Portal Definitions Eastern Michigan University University Computing
Whatis a Portal? Whatis.com
Are all Portals the same? by Janus Boye, February 1999
Web opens enterprise portals by Emily Fitzloff and Dana Gardner
The Impact ofCorporate Portals in Business by Dong-U Lee
An Introduction to Web Portals by Pongsathorn Ingpochai
Analysis of the Portal Concept by Yvonne Arnold
What is a Portal? TIBCO eBusiness Portals
A Look at the Portals ofToday White Paper by TIBCO Software Inc.
Portals and Web Sites Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What Is A Portal, Really? by About.com
MakingSense of Portal Pandemonium by Sarah L. Roberts-Witt Journal of Applied Manufacturing Systems - Fall 1999.
Web Portals: The Real Deal by Inmar Technology
Portals on a Mission by Peter Ruber
Throughthe Looking Glass Decision Support September 14, 1999, Volume 2 - Number13
Vertical Horizon by Tom Spitzer WebTechniques Magazine, February 2000
Enterprise Information Portalsand Enterprise Knowledge Portals by Joseph M. Firestone DKMS Brief No. Eight
KnowledgePortals by Daniel Tkach, IBM Data Management: Advances in Knowledge Management
Enabling the EnterprisePortal by Michael L. Gonzales DB2 Magazine June 1999
EnterpriseKnowledge Has a Face by Hadley Reynolds and Tom Koulopoulos, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine 2(5), March 30, 1999
Knowledge Channel Networks: Integrating Industry Value Chains on the InternetWhite Paper by Knowledge Ventures
Defining the Enterprise Information Portal White Paper by Joseph M. Firestone
Usinga Portal to Gain a Strategic Advantage White Paper by IPlanet
EnterprisePortals: Intergrating Information to Drive Productivity by Nick WredenBeyond Computing, 9(2), March 2000
Meta Data, Information Portals, and Business Intelligence Environments
Contentsyndication - making quick portals and busy hubs by Mahesh Shantaram
Who Will Be King ... of the Portals? by Paul Blake, Information Today, 16(8), September 1999
When is a Web Sitea 'Vortal'? by Robin Peek, Information Today, 16(8), September 1999
Ifportals can't combat information overload, they're nothing more than data warehouse interfaces by a new name by Erik Thomsen, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, 2(13), September 1999
CorporateLearning Portals by Jay Cross Internet Time Group
Business Data Finds a Home on Custom Portals by Amara D. Angelica TechWeek February 22 1999
University Portals FAQ V1.0 by Kevin Lowey
EIP Revisited WebFarmingNewsletter - March, 1999
Personalizeemployee webtops with HP's portal e-service - featuring Corporate Yahoo!by HP
Modelfor Characterizing Portal Markets by Delphi Group 1999

On Community Networks

Virtual Community Services
Communities On-Line: Community-Based Computer Networks by Anne Beamish
Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure? By Jan Fernback & Brad Thompson
Creating Public Spacein Cyberspace: The Rise of the New Community Networks by Doug Schuler
Community Networks Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Doug Schuler
Community Networking: A Network of Sustainable Communities by Douglas Schuler
The Role ofCommunity Networks in Promoting Democratized Participation by LisaM. Covi
CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere by Mark Poster
Community Networks and Community Development by Kenneth Pigg
MethodologicalIssues in Studying and Supporting Awareness on the World Wide Web byLee Li-Jen Chen and Brian R. Gaines
Community Networks - Community Development Through Information Technology bySimon Hall
CommunityNetworks: The growth of a community begins with the individual by StanleyJ.Gee Simeon E. Viltz
Public Libraries and CommunityNetworks: Linking Futures Together? by Malabika Das
Evaluation ofCommunity Networks by Kim Gregson, Charlotte Ford
Imagined Electronic Community by Cris Werry
Web Information Communities Gatekeepers, Gurus, And Users, Defining New Relationships by

Technical Papers

SemanticCommunity Web Portals by Staab, S., Angele, J., Decker, S., Hotho, A., Maedche, A., Schnurr, H-P., Studer, S., Sure, Y.: Semantic CommunityWeb Portals. In WWW9 - Proceedings of the 9th International World WideWeb Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May, 15-19, 2000, Elsevier
Extensible use of RDF in a Business Context by Kerstin Forsberg, Lars Dannstedt In WWW9 - Proceedings of the 9th International World WideWeb Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May, 15-19, 2000, Elsevier
Portals - Are We Going In Or Out? by Sandy von Allmen, Kenneth R Deans Izabella Bartosiewicz, AusWeb'01, The Seventh Australian Wold-Wide Web Conference 21-25 April, 2001, Coffs Harbour, NSW.
What's under the threshold? Portals and Portal Infrastructures, Nathan Bailey and Andrew Treloar, AusWeb'01, The Seventh Australian Wold-Wide Web Conference 21-25 April, 2001, Coffs Harbour, NSW.

Personalisation issues in the enterprise learning portal Ron Sawyer and Nathan Bailey, AusWeb'01, The Seventh Australian Wold-Wide Web Conference 21-25 April, 2001, Coffs Harbour, NSW.

Internet portals, what they are and how to build a niche internet portal to enhancethe delivery of information services by Sarah Warner 8th Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference 22 - 26 August 1999
The subjectgateway: experiences and issues based on the emergence of the Resource Discovery Network Lorcan Dempsey Online Information Review, 24(1),2000, 8-23
WorkBrain:Merging Organizational Memory and Workflow Management Systems by ChristophWargitsch
Aggregating Recommendations using RDF by Libby Miller

Functionality and Architecture Issues

Portal Fusion by Larry Hawes May 15, 2000, Volume 3 - Number 8
Implementing Corporate Portals by Dong-U Lee
Designing the Perfect Information Portal by Barbara Quint, Information Today, 17(2), February 2000
ApplicationFramework for e-business: Portals by Avi Saha November 1999
Portals and Frameworks for Web Based Education and Computational Science by Geoffrey C Fox

Languages and Tools

XMLAnd Corporate Portals by Clive Finkelstein and Peter Aiken
RSS: Aportal content language by Rael Dornfest
Making Headlines with RSS:Using Rich Site Summaries To Draw New Visitors by Jonathan Eisenzopf WebTechniques Magazine, February 2000
Beneath the Vortals: The Lowdown on XML-Based B2B Standards by Michael Carroll

Market Analysis

Enterprise Portals: New Strategies for InformationDelivery An Ovum Report by M. Sheina, D. Wells and C. Harris-Jones, June 2000
Approaching Enterprise InformationPortals by Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D. © 1999-2000 ExecutiveInformation Systems, Inc.
Enterprise Information Portals: Hot Air orHot Technology? A Cutter Information Corp. Report by Curt Hall, March 2000
Corporate Portals: The Next Generation of Desktop Computing Delphi Group, July 1999
EnterpriseInformation Portals by Shilakes, Christopher C. Merrill Lynch ReportNovember 1998

Companies

Presentations, Seminars and Tutorials

What Is a Portal, Anyway? Howard Strauss, CREN, Thursday, January 20, 2000
Of Crawlers, Portals, Mice, and Men: Is there more to Mining the Web? Panelby Minos N. Garofalakis, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Rajeev Rastogi, and Kyuseok Shim ACM SIGMOD'99, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1999
Crafting an Institutional E-business and Portal Strategy by Michael HandbergJA-SIG Conference July 10-11, 2000 in Monterey, CA
Evaluating thePortal Market by Dirk Herr-Hoyman JA-SIG Conference Orlando December 9-10, 1999
FromCatalogue to Portal: Integrating Software, Metadata, Resources, and Services by Richard C. Rockwell Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)1/29/99
CorporatePortal Seminars - Course Outline
Portal Technology SymposiumSanDiego California on July 11-13, 2000
Enterprise Portals: Gateway tothe 21st Century e-Business by Clive Finkelstein London 25-27 October 2000
Knowledge Nets and Communities:What Works, What Doesn't by Knowledge Management Consulting
Off Beat XMLUses in Computing Portals by Geoffrey C. Fox at NCSA Portal/Metadata Meeting on October 22-23 1999
Full Indexfor Basic Full Description of WebFlow and Friends for Education and SciencePortals by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt at NCSA Portal/Metadata Meetingon October 22-23 99
DesignSecrets of Yahoo! Seybold Seminars Boston/Publishing '99

Books

Building CorporatePortals using XML by Clive Finkelstein and Peter Aiken, 1999
Business Portals: Drivers, Definitions, and Rules Wayne Eckerson, 1999

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