Do Diabetic Veterans Use the Internet? Self-Reported Usage, Skills, and Interest in Using My HealtheVet Web Portal

This chapter discusses a growth framework for industry web portals which present a new opportunity in the internet business. The framework contains five stages: business plan stage, website development stage, attraction stage, entrenchment stage, and defense stage. The actions to be taken and strategies to be applied in each stage are set out. Two industry web portals are investigated in detail. The two examples illustrate the applicability of the proposed growth framework to the real world. The combination of a conceptual growth framework and the application of this conceptual framework to two real-world examples yields a set of guidelines based in large part on lessons learned from the two examples. Thus, this chapter provides a concept-based growth framework and a set of real-world-based guidelines that will very possibly provide a practical benefit to industry web portal business practitioners.

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Architectural Web Portal and Interactive CAD Learning in Hungary

Cases on Digital Technologies in Higher Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-869-2.ch014 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 191-201

Author(s):

Attila Somfai

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Professional Standards ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Portal ◽

Foreign Study ◽

Computer Aided ◽

Online Lecture ◽

Architectural Modeling ◽

The University ◽

Teaching Modality

It is the aim of this case to show the teaching web portal of the Faculty of Architecture at “Széchenyi István” University (www.arc.sze.hu/indexen.html) and its many uses. Nowadays, the Internet helps us to look into Hungarian and foreign study aids, and architectural websites. The Internet has created potential new and effective ways of cooperation between lecturers and students of the university and other institutions of higher education. The teaching web portal mentioned above realizes diversity and complexity of architecture, with efficient grouping of information, while being attentive to high professional standards. Computer Aided Architectural Modeling (www.arc.sze.hu/cad) is one of the new types of online lecture notes, where many narrated screen captured videos show the proper usage of cad software instead of texts and figures. This interactive type of learning assists students to become more independent learners. This type of teaching modality provides the opportunity for students who need more time to acquire subject matter through viewing video examples. The success of our departments’ common web initiations can be measured through Internet statistics and feedback of the students and external professionals.

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Web Portal Research Issues

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch649 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 4064-4069 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Arthur Tatnall

Keyword(s):

The Internet ◽

Web Portal ◽

Multiple Sources ◽

Research Issues ◽

General Terms ◽

Aggregate Information ◽

Specific Goal ◽

Gain Access ◽

Or Gate ◽

The Web

In general terms, a portal can be seen as “a door, gate or entrance” (Macquarie Library, 1981), and in its simplest form the word just means a gateway; however, it is often a gateway to somewhere other than just to the next room or street. The Oxford Reference Dictionary defines a portal as “a doorway or gate etc, especially a large and elaborate one” (Pearsall & Trumble, 1996). In the context of this article, a Web portal is considered to be a special Internet (or intranet) site designed to act as a gateway to give access to other specific sites. A Web portal can be said to aggregate information from multiple sources and make this information available to various users (Tatnall, 2005c). It consists of a Web site that can be used to find and gain access to other sites, but also to provide the services of a guide that can help to protect the user from the chaos of the Internet and direct him or her toward a specific goal. More generally, however, a portal should be seen as providing a gateway not just to sites on the Web, but to all network-accessible resources, whether involving intranets, extranets, or the Internet. In other words, a portal offers centralised access to all relevant content and applications.

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Tools for studying the collections at the musée du quai Branly: paper archives and electronic research

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200015303 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 17-20

Author(s):

Sarah Frioux-Salgas ◽

Françoise Dalex

Keyword(s):

The Internet ◽

Web Portal ◽

Museum Visitors ◽

The Arts ◽

Heritage Collections

The musée du quai Branly, dedicated to the arts and civilisations of Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, has been open since 20 June 2006. Its holdings came from two pre-existing museums, and also from a number of new acquisitions. The museum’s library conserves and enhances the value of three heritage collections – the documents in the library itself, those in the drawings, engravings and photographs collection and the archive pieces and documents about the collections – and a miscellany of users is welcomed to its three dedicated research spaces, from museum visitors to internationally renowned scholars. An ambitious policy has led it to define and develop tools for consulting the collections, and to create a virtual collection in the form of a documentary web portal, through which the museum diffuses its research and heritage documents on the internet. The archives and the collections documentation described below perfectly illustrate how this works.

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Web Portal Gateways

Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-799-7.ch195 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1217-1221 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Arthur Tatnall

Keyword(s):

First Generation ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Portal ◽

Multiple Sources ◽

General Terms ◽

Start Up ◽

Base Site ◽

Starting Point ◽

E Mail ◽

The Web

The term Web portal is overused and takes on a different meaning depending on the view of the author. This article will investigate the concept of a portal, the various types of portal, and how portals are currently being used. A Yahoo search of the Web in February 2004 revealed 85 million entries for the word portal, and even allowing for a considerable degree of overuse and overlap, portals are seen everywhere and span a bewildering range of topics and interest areas. It would be difficult to make any use of the Web without encountering one. In general terms, unrelated to the World Wide Web, the Macquarie Dictionary defines a portal as “a door, gate or entrance” (Macquarie Library, 1981, p. 1346). More specifically, a Web portal is seen as a special Internet (or intranet) site designed to act as a gateway to give access to other sites (Tatnall 2005a). A portal aggregates information from multiple sources and makes that information available to various users. In other words a portal is an all-in-one Web site whose prime purpose is to find, and to gain access to other sites, but also one that provides the services of a guide that can help to protect the user from the chaos of the Internet and direct them towards an eventual goal. More generally, however, a portal should be seen as providing a gateway, not just to sites on the Web, but to all network-accessible resources, whether involving intranets, extranets, or the Internet. In other words a portal offers centralised access to all relevant content and applications (Tatnall 2005b). Historically, the Web-portal concept probably developed out of search engine sites such as Yahoo!, Excite, and Lycos, which can now be classified as first-generation portals. These sites, however, quickly evolved into sites providing additional services such as e-mail, stock quotes, news, and community building rather than just search capabilities (Rao 2001). Eckerson (1999) outlines four generations of portals whose focus, in each case, is: generic, personalised, application, and role. The success of a portal depends on its ability to provide a base-site that users will keep returning to after accessing other related sites. As an entranceway onto the Web (or an intranet) it should be a preferred starting point for many of the things that a particular user wants to do there. A useful goal for those setting up a portal is to have it designated by many users as their browser start-up page.

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Development and Maintenance of the Ethiopian Legal Information Website

Afrika Focus ◽

10.21825/af.v20i1-2.5073 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 20 (1-2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Getaneh Agegn Alemu

Keyword(s):

Action Plan ◽

Criminal Code ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Portal ◽

Legal Information ◽

Procedure Code ◽

Mekelle University ◽

Western Law ◽

The University ◽

Family Code

Information and Communication Technology in general and the internet in particular have been creating unprecedented opportunities in facilitating and streamlining access to information. Websites have become a common way of publishing legal information for the public in many countries. In Ethiopia, however, the availability of legal websites has been very limited or non-existent. Except for the constitution, no other basic Ethiopian law has ever been published online. To benefit from the tremendous potentials of the internet, a project was initiated to develop an Ethiopian Legal Information Web Site.Based on users' requirements obtained from questionnaire analysis, and current paradigms and implications, the Ethiopian Legal Information Website was designed, developed, implemented and maintained. The website is an online database of Ethiopian basic laws developed by Mekelle University, Ethiopia, in cooperation with the Non-Western Law Department of Ghent University, Belgium.Basic laws included on the site at present are the Ethiopian Constitution, Civil Code, Criminal Code, Civil Procedure Code, Criminal Procedure Code, Commercial Code and Family Code. The laws can be viewed and used in full text html, whereas some of the laws including the 2004 Criminal Code, Family Code, FDKE Constitution and the Tigray Regional State Constitution are available in pdf Laws can be searched by keywords using the site search engine. Comments and suggestions from experts and Ethiopian laws users have been collected, hence modifications, improvements and additions have been made to the website. The Ethiopian Legal Information Website was first hosted on the University of Ghent internet server and currently in the Mekelle University server at http://mail.mu.edu. et/~ethiopialaws/.1 The Ethiopian Legal Information Website has been found to be a useful web portal to access and use the basic Ethiopian laws. The University of Ghent, ILO, the Library of Congress, AUSTLII, WASHLAW, WIKIPEDIA and other major legal web portals make citations in reference to the site. While the website currently contains only the basic laws of the federal government, an action plan is prepared to include regional laws of Ethiopia. Other legal information including amendments to the laws, decisions and legal news will also be included on the site, hence a comprehensive Ethiopian Legal Web Portal will be developed and maintained. Key Words: Legal Information, Legal Information Website, Digital Divide

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A Data Quality Model for Web Portals

Electronic Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-967-5.ch048 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 777-792

Author(s):

Angélica Caro ◽

Coral Calero ◽

Mario Piattini

Keyword(s):

Data Quality ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Portals ◽

Web Portal ◽

Quality Model ◽

Quality Models ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Assess Data Quality ◽

The Web ◽

Data Consumer

Web portals are Internet-based applications that provide a big amount of data. The data consumer who uses the data given by these applications needs to assess data quality. Due to the relevance of data quality on the Web together with the fact that DQ needs to be assessed within the context in which data are generated, data quality models specific to this context are necessary. In this chapter, we will introduce a model for data quality in Web portals (PDQM). PDQM has been built upon the foundation of three key aspects: (1) a set of Web data quality attributes identified in the literature in this area, (2) data quality expectations of data consumers on the Internet, and (3) the functionalities that a Web portal may offer its users.

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A Data Quality Model for Web Portals

Handbook of Research on Web Information Systems Quality ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-847-5.ch008 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 130-144

Author(s):

Angélica Caro ◽

Coral Calero ◽

Mario Piattini

Keyword(s):

Data Quality ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Portals ◽

Web Portal ◽

Quality Model ◽

Quality Models ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Assess Data Quality ◽

The Web ◽

Data Consumer

Web portals are Internet-based applications that provide a big amount of data. The data consumer who uses the data given by these applications needs to assess data quality. Due to the relevance of data quality on the Web together with the fact that DQ needs to be assessed within the context in which data are generated, data quality models specific to this context are necessary. In this chapter, we will introduce a model for data quality in Web portals (PDQM). PDQM has been built upon the foundation of three key aspects: (1) a set of Web data quality attributes identified in the literature in this area, (2) data quality expectations of data consumers on the Internet, and (3) the functionalities that a Web portal may offer its users.

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Web Portal Application Development Technologies

Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-989-2.ch184 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1131-1137

Author(s):

Américo Sampaio

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Web Sites ◽

World Wide ◽

New Technology ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Portal ◽

Application Development ◽

Doing Business ◽

The World ◽

The Web

The growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has contributed to significant changes in many areas of our society. The Web has provided new ways of doing business, and many companies have been offering new services as well as migrating their systems to the Web. The main goal of the first Web sites was to facilitate the sharing of information between computers around the world. These Web sites were mainly composed of simple hypertext documents containing information in text format and links to other documents that could be spread all over the world. The first users of this new technology were university researchers interested in some easier form of publishing their work, and also searching for other interesting research sources from other universities.

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A Local Community Web Portal and Small Businesses

Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-989-2.ch094 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 559-563

Author(s):

Heather Fulford

Keyword(s):

Small Businesses ◽

Local Community ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Portal ◽

Internet Adoption ◽

Business Operations ◽

Subsequent Choice ◽

Adoption Decisions ◽

The Village ◽

The Web

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the role played by the establishment, in a UK village, of a local community Web portal on the Internet adoption decisions of small businesses in the village. The article reports on some of the findings of an ongoing study of this local community Web portal, focusing specifically on those small businesses that had, prior to the launch of the Web portal, made a decision not to adopt the Internet into their business operations. The barriers these nonadopting small businesses perceived to Internet adoption are identified, and the impacts their portal presence had on their subsequent choice of Internet adoption pathway are discussed. Before presenting the research design and pertinent findings of this local community Web portal project, some background details about the study and the local community Web portal are provided.

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