1 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 From a supply-side to a user- driven on-line information environment: Feedback on the development of information portals for researchers at INIST

2 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 Portals Documentation centre for CNRS labs and "units" Document holdings and bibliographic collection Document delivery, ILL and bibliographic DBs Handle subscriptions Aggregate access to library catalogues and bibliographic DBs, with derivative services in a one-stop information resource on the web

3 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 History - 1 First phase Access to limited resources Broad spectrum Our first portal included several features and was some sort of a demonstrator of what we could bundle together if demand met supply...

4 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 History - 2 Second phase Reach subject-based/organisational communities One unified model (save maintenance and update time) e.g.: BiblioVie, BiblioSHS, etc.BiblioVie,BiblioSHS

5 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 History - 3 Third phase Research librarians in networks e.g.: BiblioST2I, BiblioPlanetsBiblioST2IBiblioPlanets Adjusting pre-built portals Being experimental

6 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 Personalisation: what is it? Help users make use of information resources the way they want? Facilitate use of the resources when faced with overwhelming information Improve selectivity

7 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 What for? Address Needs of research libraries "on the field" Researchers' needs

8 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 A first response: a slight mix of generic with personal? See everything and just keep what you need and are entitled to Bookmarking tool Derived from supplied catalogues, local resources Ability to add one's "own" resources Ability to organise, classify

9 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 Demo and its personalisable bookmarkpersonalisable bookmark

10 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 And next? Improve current bookmarking tool Tagging as a major feature (mixed approach: controlled + free tags?)

11 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 Further assumptions Other features ? Team/project-level workflow (diaries, tasks, document sharing, etc.) Articles writing and publishing tools Feed aggregation DB search interface Web search engines Archiving, assessment submissions Practical tools: route planning, weather forecasts, hotel reservations, in-house directories, in-house press surveys, internal newsletters, etc. Researcher questionnaire and interviews

12 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 Our current questioning Are portals the only solution? What are their substitutes going to be? « How about your portal and our DWE?"

13 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 And web 2.0 in the picture? Interest for personal start pages (eg. Netvibes, iGoogle, MyYahoo, Webwag, etc.) Widgets

14 J.-F. Nominé - ILI 2007 – London – Oct. 8, 2007 Thank you !