UC Portal Workgroup

AGENDA

(TBD) November 2004

UCLA

 

Introductions

 

Genesis for the Workgroup

            Description of the UCLA/UCSD joint portal project and its goals


Issues that Need Attention
            What do we expect a portal to do?
            Differences between research, instruction and administration's needs
            What about SAKAI Course Management?

            Will it line up with existing portals on campuses?
            What do campuses need to do with portals to better support UCOP's apps?
            Can we still follow an open source direction and use commercial portal products?
            Multiple portals on a campus. (How many is too many? How many is too few?)

 

Level set on portal projects on the campuses. Have each project report briefly on:
            Scope: size and nature of audience, numbers of independent portals, etc.
            Goals
            Approach: technology/products in use, funding approach
            Current status
            Goals for next 2 or 3 years

What would we like to accomplish together?
            Sharing of content (what content?)
            Exchange of applications (which applications?)
            Others?
            Implications:
                     Common taxonomy?
                     Content interchange standards (meta tagging, format, etc.)
                     Surfacing content from portal in another portal
                     Surfacing applications from one portal in another portal
                     Opportunities for hosting multiple portals in a shared, single infrastructure?
                     Identity Management/Directory/Authentication implications

 

Standards to explore (perhaps a brief background presentation for each one)
            JSR 168
            WSRP

            Dublin Core

            TEI

            OASIS XML word processing standards
            others?

Pilot project(s)?
            Try surfacing content from Vignette CMS in someone else's uPortal?
            Try hosting an application and surfacing it in both Vignette and uPortal?
            Process to refine a common taxonomy (starting with UCLA/UCSD taxonomy)
            Try hosting an independent portal instance in an existing portal environment?

 

Wrap Up Plan for Next Steps