1. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Introduction What Does a Portal Look Like? “Portal 101” Seminar

2. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Yahoo Results: Portal York Region

3. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Yahoo Results: Portal Toronto

4. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Yahoo Results: GIS Portal

5. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure So When is a Portal not a Portal? Everyone claims to have a portal The value of the term is therefore diluted Let’s identify what is important about a Portal, and use the right term for other things  Website  Gateway  Portal

6. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Website - Defining Characteristics Direct source of information Not dynamically generated content Principally text in HTML with associated images, and other media files Uses hyperlinks to navigate within, and sometimes out of the website Principal focus is itself, rather than referencing other resources Provider of syndicated content (ideally)

7. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Website – York Region

8. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Gateway - Defining Characteristics Primarily a collection of set hyperlinks to online resources of perceived value to the end-user Coupled with descriptions of the referenced resources The majority of the resources belong to others Often the collection is for a single topic or theme Often aided by a search engine that auto-imposes a filter on that topic Can remote search other online catalogs (ideally)

9. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Gateway – Ontario Seniors’ Info

10. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Portal - Defining Characteristics Account-based (Security)  capable of supporting “single sign-on” Personalizable Customizable Aggregates and integrates  User of syndicated content Exposes transactional services Search, structured and unstructured Notification – push approach

11. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Hierarchy of Portal Types Portal Public Web Enterprise Corporate Marketspace B2BB2C MegaPortals Yahoo Excite InfoSeek etc Vertical Portals Geospatial One Stop Conservation GeoPortal derived from: Ovum's taxonomy of portals Partner Portals IntranetInternet Complete

12. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Corporate Internet Portal

13. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Personalization: User Registration From the Portal account registration process…  You entered your date of birth - you are now pre-set with some resource links related to seniors  You flagged that you’re visually impaired - you are pre-configured with the accessible version  You provided the address of your place of work - We encourage you to take the bus to work - here is the transit routes and nearest bus stop to your home  You registered that you wish to be notified by email of upcoming events – the email will sent here ________ for each new event

14. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Customization Now that I am logged in…and know what I can do…  I wish to change my page layout and add a second page  I wish to have Serif font  I wish to have community safety notices on my home page  I wish to be email notified in a weekly summary of upcoming events  I wish to add a map of my local waste disposal sites

15. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Aggregation & Integration Using the Portal tools available…. I want to have subscribed information relating to Family prominently available - a “channel” so to speak I just made a custom map using various data sources  and will save it for use later I just configured an advanced search tapping into multiple catalogs  and will save it to re-apply later

16. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Transactional Services and Single Sign-On Now that I’m logged in…  I wish to see what Library books I have signed out and will schedule a renewal  I wish to see my municipal tax account balance and update my account for pre-authorized payment  I wish to see the status of my public service inquiries and complaints and submit a new one about the Transit website being down!  I wish to see what swim programs my kids have taken and will then register for the upcoming relevant program presented

17. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Illustrative Difference WebsitesGateway Corporate Internet Portal subscribe internal transactional system public information bounce

18. Enriched Communities through Coordinated Geospatial Infrastructure Summary Portal means more than Gateway Required: a good understanding of the  qualitative benefits from an end-users perspective, and  quantitative benefits from an internal agility perspective “Install it and they will come” without a plan is not advised Is it effective to have a multitude of ways in? – for we will always have Google, IE Favourites, and Notepad