Severiens, T.: ¬A distributed portal for physics (2002)
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- Abstract
- Many subject specific portals were built during the last year. Most of these are simple user-interfaces to databases of subject specific information added with several lists of links. This centralised type of portal often looks fine with its consistent facing but is hard to keep up to date and high priced to maintain. Users expect a service be malntained and available 24 hours, 365 days for at least 10 years and this all free of charge. On the one hand, it seams to be impossible to set up a service matching all this demands, an the other hand, many institutions offer information and services which could be parts of a portal, which are maintained frequently and paid by public via these institutions. The idea is, to collect the existing information and present it in a structured and consistent way. This idea matches in an excellent way with the way knowledge is produced in Physics. Physicists work all over the world often an different continents an the same topic, knowing each others work only from their publications, conferences and online-communication. Information in Physics is published in quite different ways, by journal articles, which can be reviewed, sometimes by peer, or pre-prints. Many information is available in non-textual genres like software sources or datasets or mathematical formula. Distributed Portals make use of the existing information an the web. In the early days of the web, the very popular link-lists where a kind of portal, linking to (all) pages with information an the specific topic. Indeed, these link lists had many properties of modern portals, offering information in a structured and selected way. But they did not offer the information under a common layout (desktop) and did not offer user-specific views onto the information. Modern distributed portals combine the advantages of centralised portals (high information structure, common layout, easy navigation through all the information) with the possibilities of distributed portals (up to date information, low budget implementation, good knowledge coverage).
