Portals and GILS

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Portals and GILS

• Portals, GILS, Content Management!
• How are they different, how are they the same..

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OBJECTIVES

• Share knowledge of search technology
• Explain the needs of GILS
• Answer your questions
• Provide a base of knowledge that you can use to
  make your decisions

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Government Information Locator Service (GILS)

• A melding of Information Science (Libraries),
  Information Technology, and Records Management
  (Archives) principles to provide the public
  ACCESS to electronic and print materials
• GILS is based on access to information, portals
  are transaction oriented, and agency web search
  engines help find current pages

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Enterprise Information Needs
Agency
Customer
GILS
Portal
OUTSIDE
INSIDE
Intranet Web Servers
Web Servers
Data Servers
Data Servers
Legacy Data
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GILS Needs

• Ability to collect and index dynamic content not
  under the control of the collecting agency
• Ability to search via HTTP
• Ability to categorize the collection into
  specific subject indexes
• Data refresh without human interdiction
• Ability to manage content to increase validity
• Ability to use metadata for retrieval and ranking
• Ability to follow accepted Internet protocols
  (robots.txt)

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COMMON ISSUES

• Cost search technology can cost from 5,000 to
  over 1,000,000 (average 250,000)
• Ownership do we buy, rent, or join a consortium
• Infrastructure can we find one that fits our
  current infrastructure, or will we have to
  change/modify
• Ease of Administration what is the ongoing
  human resource cost of this product
• Performance is it scalable, robust, and fast
• User Interface can it be customized to meet our
  needs
• Vendor issues product support and viability