Title: A Dynamic and Individualized Web System
Author: Christopher G. Connolly
URL: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/html/edu9901/edu9901.html
Abstract of the article:
Many universities have striven to provide their students, parents, faculty, staff, and alumni with robust, useful, and informative websites. This paper is designed to evaluate the evolving web-based technologies and will utilize Villanova University’s work for case-study examples of these technologies. The objective of this paper is to provide the reader with a better understanding of what constitutes a truly integrated, dynamic, and individualized web system.
3 things that I learned from my Reading Assignment
- Portals were designed to organize and customize the plethora of information available on Internet and Intranet websites and to provide a single point of entry. The portals serves as the information retrieval systems for the websites.
- In-house developed or commercial Portals should provide an API and Documentation for the information in its storage facility. The API allows a university to customize and tailor the information to its needs. In addition, a properly constructed, object-oriented API can provide a robust and resilient interface.
- Like other tasks, in here we also consider preliminary steps for portal integration.
Implication of the new things I learned to my work/ to me as a person:
Maybe you are surprised of the article that I have been presenting because for me this also encompasses the library system in a way. Because portals are the ones designed to organize and customize the plethora of information available on Internet and Intranet websites and to provide a single point of entry as I have mentioned earlier.Portals and library systems are almost the same in its function.Actually I experienced using an in-house developed library system made by our computer teacher, wherein it has limits in its function because the teacher has no background about the library itself. Presently, we have acquired the library system that has been developed by Mr. Romy Sebastian. The library system is very user friendly and meet the needs of the library. But as far as I’m concerned either in-house or commercial system may be used for as long as it meets the demands of the clients and personnel.
