Keywords

Information portals, Academic libraries, Digital libraries, Library catalogs, Semantic web, Web service languages

Abstract

This paper expands upon the concept of the information portal as introduced in the earlier-published article "The Role of Web Services in Portal Design: Approaches for an Algerian University Library." The categories and concepts involved are outlined as follows:
Defining the “portal” and its variants
Identifying variant functions of portals
Notions of portal user profiles and customization
History of portals
Library catalog models
Early library catalog models
Current library catalog models
Metadata repository models
Early metadata repository models
Current metadata repository models
Federated search models
Early federated search models
Current federated search models
Beyond Federated Searching (Centralized Indexes)
Digital library models
The move towards hybrid portals
Current State of Information Portal Modules
Embedding Library Content Outside the Library Site
Facebook
Google Gadget
Embedding Library Content in the Campus Portal
History of web portal language development
CGI
Java
HTML
XML
New Trends for Semantic Web Documentary Portal
Semantic Portal Concept
Historical Development of Language for Semantic Web
RDF and RDFS
Languages, assertions and annotations
RDF
Topic maps
Ontologies, languages, definitions
Languages and services composition
UDDI
WSDL
DAML-S
XL
ebXML
RosettaNet
Future Research for the Semantic Web
Modularization languages
Inference Engines
Processing of languages
Robust inferences
Language rules
Summary

Original Publication Citation

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