Portals

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Portals

My UW-Madison Enterprise Portal Migration to Open Source Framework

March 22, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2005

In late 2003, the decision was made to migrate My UW–Madison, the University of Wisconsin–Madison's three-year old enterprise portal, from using a commercial framework to the open source u…

Communication Problems ReSolved Through Portal Implementation

March 22, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2005

This presentation will describe the reasons behind and process of implementing a portal at a small liberal arts college, including the evaluation process and lessons learned. Challenged with the ne…

Homegrown Single Sign On at UM - St. Louis

March 22, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2005

This presentation will cover the development of the SSO project at UM–St. Louis and its use in the development of the campus portal. It will outline fundamental concepts and components necessary …

Survey Summary: Use of Portals in the Academic World

January 1, 2005

The results of the survey show that portals have received wide-spread attention in the academic world. Among those colleges who adopted the portals, over half of them have both vertical and horizo…

Enterprise-Wide System Implementations at Multicampus Institutions

February 15, 2005

Drawing from research at California State University, Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Minnesota, this research bulletin describes the drivers, issues, and practices f…

Experiences of Educators Using a Portal of Aggregated Metadata

January 1, 2004

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Project sought to test the viability of a search portal containing aggregated metadata for cultural herit…

Building Educational Portals atop Digital Libraries

January 1, 2005

Carleton Collge built portal tools that integrate and interoperate with digital library elements at a number of levels. Carleton Collge built portal to…

Portal to the Rescue: First-Year Information

January 12, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2005

The Office of Student Activities and First-Year Experience and Information Technology's Web Technology group developed a module for our campus portal that put first-year students' paper f…

ECU One Stop: Leveraging Enterprise Portal Technology

January 14, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2005

In 2000, the East Carolina University's New Technologies Development Group was charged to develop a solution providing the campus community with needed information. This presentation will focu…

The Current State of Portal Applications in ARL Libraries

January 1, 2004

Over the past two years, the Association of Research Libraries has polled its members on the current state of portal implementations. The first report, published in June 2002, reported the results …