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Explore the concept of distributed portals in physics, collecting information from various sources, separating content, and encouraging collaboration. Learn about existing portals in the field and future focuses in this area.
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Distributed Portals for Physics CRIS2002, Kassel, 29-31 Aug 2002 Thomas Severiens, severiens@isn-oldenburg.de
What are Distributed Portals? • Knowledge in Physics is produced spread all over the world, even away form earth. • Information is published in a distributed way • Institutional Webserver • Online Journals • Print-only Journals • Information is available in different genres • Refereed articles • Peer-reviewed online-publications • Software • Datasets
What are Distributed Portals? • Portals collect existing information form different sources • Portals present information in a common desktop • Separation of content and layout • Distributed Portals • Collect existing content from distributed sources (web-server) • Extract content from layout • Meta-information required
Distributed Workforce • Distributed Content • Biggest example is the Web... • Distributed Workforce • Much more complicate • Quality-problem • Problem of continuity • Problem of politics and interests • Charter • Define common goals
Distributed vs. Centralised • Centralised • High information structure • Common layout • Easy navigation through the information • Distributed • Up to date information • Low budget implementation • Good information coverage
Distributed Portals – a technical view Portal Portal • Collecting module • Content extractor • Portal • Mirror system ? Portal Content extractor Collector Source A Source B Source C
Distributed Search-Engines SINN-Project by DFN e.V. http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/projects/SINN/ Common Search XML-Query Search-Engine A Search-Engine D Search-Engine B Search-Engine C
Examples of Portals in Physics • PhysNet (distributed portal) • ProPhysik.de (centralised portal) • Fachwelt-Physik (distributed portal)
PhysNet www.physics-network.org • Over 5.300 links of Physics Departments and Document-Collections • Service maintained in 8 countries on 4 continents • Web-Sites mirrored on 10 servers all over the world • Approx. 25.000 users every month • 16 members ((inter)national Physical Societies)
Fachwelt-Physik • Bilingual: English and German • Views: • Mozilla-based browser • Print-out version • Text-only version • Robot-optimised version with metadata • Maintained at numerous sites
Future Focuses in this Field • Development and implementation of interfaces for distributed search-engines • Development of new services • Continuous maintenance of running portals
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