1. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 1 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) A Simple Definition of Portal Shohreh kazemi 84131065

2. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 2 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) A Simple Definition Portals wrap an organization’s documents and applications in a single web interface that provides distributed access, cross-platform usability, personalization, management, and security features.

3. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 3 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Larger List of Portal Features Categorization of content (taxonomy) Content search & indexing Content management & aggregation Personalization Robust application integration Development tools Redundancy, failover, & load balancing Mobile/wireless support Single Sign-On Security

4. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 4 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Categorization of Content A portal should allow you to organize content and applications in different ways in order to meet the needs of various groups within your organization.

5. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 5 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Content Search & Indexing A portal should provide or integrate with document index and search systems so that users can quickly navigate to the information they need.

6. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 6 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Content Management A portal should provide content authoring systems that allow non-technical staff to create content. It should control access to content to allow only authorized users access to document repositories.

7. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 7 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Personalization A portal should display different views of organizational data based upon user groups. Individual users should be able to further customize their view to only display the content they use most often.

8. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 8 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Application Integration A portal should provide a wrapper around existing web-based applications. Aspects of integration include support for single sign-on, inclusion of external web resources, support for web services, and portal preferences that carry over into the integrated application.

9. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 9 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Development Tools A portal product should provide robust, standards-based development tools that allow IT staff to integrate applications and extend portal functionality.

10. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 10 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Enterprise IT Functionality A portal should provide standard enterprise software functionality including redundancy, failover, load balancing, and backup.

11. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 11 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Mobile & Wireless Support A portal should provide cross-platform functionality that allow users of different operating systems and web browsers to access the portal. This includes support for mobile phones and wireless PDAs.

12. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 12 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Single Sign-On A portal should integrate with or provide a single sign-on system. In other words, a portal should pull user information from a directory server such as LDAP, NDS, or Active Directory.

13. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 13 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Feature - Security A portal should provide robust authentication and authorization systems. Any integration with a single sign-on system should be secure and prevent the unencrypted transmission of user credentials across application domains.

14. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 14 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Outline of the presentation  What is portal?  What is portlet?  What is WSRP?  A portal architecture using WSRP  WSRP - Detailed

15. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 15 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Portals  Provide personalized access to information, applications, processes and people.  Get information from local or remote data sources, e.g. from databases, or remote web sites.  Aggregate information into composite pages to provide information to users in a compact and easily consumable form.

16. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 16 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Portals (Cont.)  Includes applications like e-mail, calendar, organizers, banking, bill presentment, etc.  User profile management, e.g. Different views for different user.

17. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 17 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Outline of the presentation  What is portal?  What is portlet?  What is WSRP?  A portal architecture using WSRP  WSRP - Detailed

18. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 18 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Portlets  Different rendering and selection mechanisms for different kinds of information or applications.  Portlets are plugging components, which provides an abstraction to hide differences.  Portlets are user-facing, interactive web application components rendering markup fragments to be aggregated and displayed by the portal.

19. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 19 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Portlets  Content is provided: by external services and displayed by specific local portlets running on the portal. by local portlets using only local portlets.

20. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 20 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Goals  Create consistent, explicit, integrated extensible portals Establish momentum Balance structure and freedom Immediate use with little/no learning required Simple navigation to related resources Reusable content, tools, code, etc. Provide process support Rapid development Simple maintenance: content, systems, operations, relationships Focus on what users need -- not gratuitous elements Meeting present and future organizational needs Meet the needs of multiple users: duality of needs Developing and maintaining a community of practice to achieve integration: achieve blending

21. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 21 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Portals Defined  Definition Technically, a portal is a network service that brings together content from diverse distributed resources using technologies such as cross searching, harvesting, and alerting, and collates this into an aggregated form for presentation to the user, usually via a website. (JISC)

22. شهره کاظمی kazemi@ce.aut.ac.ir 22 آزمايشکاه سيستم های هوشمند (http://ce.aut.ac.ir/islab) Typical Portal Features  Single Point of Access for particular audience  Broad array of resources and services brought together from 1 source  Sense of community  Customisation, personalisation, integration  Portal Types - Subject Portals, Data Type Portals, User Community Portals, Institutional Portals…