The Portal Project

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The Portal Project

• Paul Harding
• Portal Development Manager

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Applications I

• TeamSite CMS
• page creation without technical knowledge
• creation of site navigational structure
• workflow management
• share content amongst sites
• user admin

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Applications II

• LiveSite
• Dynamic components, e.g. news, funding, resources
  lists
• Page templates maintain consistent look and feel
  while allowing users to customise their pages
• WYSIWYG creation of pages with components means
  developers have more time for developing

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Applications III

• MetaTagger
• Automatic tagging of content
• Allows presentation of resources by taxonomy,
  searching of content
• MediaBin
• Automated image transformation
• Integrated with TeamSite
• OpenDeploy
• Integration with workflow, version control,
  deploy pages to web servers, data to SQL database

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Live Sites

• BMAF http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/business
• HCA http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/hca
• HECA http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/heca
• HLST http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/hlst
• JOHLSTE http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/johlste
• Physical Sciences http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/phys
  sci
• Eurovariety http//www.heacademy.ac.uk
  /eurovariety
• FORREST http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/forrest
• Academy York http//www.heacademy.ac.uk

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Coming soon

• IJME

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Coming soon

• Internationalisation SIG

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Coming soon

• BMAF conference

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Coming soon

• CEBE

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Coming soon

• EvidenceNet
• Physical Sciences Forensic Careers

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New functionality

• Outgoing rss (e.g. news, events and thematic,
  e.g. assessment-based news)
• Incoming rss (e.g. THES, Guardian Education)
• Integration with Twitter and social bookmarking
  sites
• Thematic search components, e.g. HE in FE
  organisations directory
• Rate a resource/resource reviews (EvidenceNet)

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Any questions?