1. uPortal & Sakai Open Source and Higher Education
Presented by Justin Tilton at
Open Source in Government Conference
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 – George Washington University

2. JA-SIG Java In Administration Special Interest Group
National and regional conferences
Clearing house
Collaborative projects

3. The vision
Facilitate the transition to new Web technologies, especially Java and Web Services, through training and collaboration.
Develop software, important to higher education, that can be shared.
Improve productivity in higher education.

4. Activities The JA-SIG membership is engaged in three activities.
Sponsorship of a twice-annual conference in the U.S. and one in the U.K.
JA-SIG Clearinghouse - a place on the Web to facilitate the sharing of Java and XML components.
Development of a free, open source, open standard portal for higher education: uPortal.

5. Some JA-SIG members Boston College Princeton U British Columbia
Delaware
Nagoya
Cornell
Denison
El Camino Community
Lehigh
Illinois State
Cal Poly SLO
Rutgers
Roanoke College
Yale
Texas Tech
Columbia
New Mexico
Virginia Tech
Kansas
Hawaii
Hull
Nottingham
+ ~300 more…

6. What is uPortal? Enterprise portal
Framework for presenting aggregated content (channels)
Personalization
Role-based access control and layouts
Open source, collaborative effort
Java web application

7. Red Universitaria Nacional

8. Denison University

9. Cornell University

10. Why uPortal? Features important to higher education Open standards
Internationalization
Decentralized control of publishing and related parts of the user layout
Layout based on role, accessibility, and user preferences
Anonymous authorization for access
Open standards

11. Higher Education Most of these features apply to Higher Education
uPortal is bridging the gap between corporate portals and the needs of Higher Education Institutions

12. Why open standards? Sharing: Interoperability (component architecture)
Risk Management: Ability to change software if needed
Architecture: Choice of components

13. Mentoring Area Affiliation Internationalization (XLIFF)
Oracle Corporation
Layout (XSLT)
Software A.G.,
Remote portlet (WSRP)
IBM Corporation
Integration
SAP A.G., HR-XML and IFX Forums
Learning systems
Airbus, Boeing
Security
NIST, NSA
Performance
Wells Fargo

14. Business relationships
Firm
Area
iAssessment
K-12 teacher assessment
Unicon, Inc.
Academus learning system and uPortal technical support
SCT Corporation
Higher education administrative suite
the r*smart group
Electronic portfolio

15. Types of portals Personalized display uPortal 2.0 framework
Integration
uPortal Web Services + Adapters
Enterprise
uPortal Web Services
Enterprise Process
uPortal Sakai workflow

16. Multiple target devices

17. Current Work: Accessibility

18. Current Work: Accessibility

19. Industry Recognition

20. The future Continue deployment Industry-based technical support
Cooperative development of commercial products by business partners
Further development of the portal itself
Sakai Project
Coordinated development of products using uPortal (e.g. Sakai partners)

25. The End
Justin E. Tilton