Title
Ensemble PDP-8: eight principles for distributed portals
Abstract
Ensemble, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathways project for Computing, builds upon a diverse group of prior NSDL, DL-I, and other projects. Ensemble has shaped its activities according to principles related to design, development, implementation, and operation of distributed portals. Here we articulate 8 key principles for distributed portals (PDPs). While our focus is on education and pedagogy, we expect that our experiences will generalize to other digital library application domains. These principles inform, facilitate, and enhance the Ensemble R&D and production activities. They allow us to provide a broad range of services, from personalization to coordination across communities. The eight PDPs can be briefly summarized as: (1) Articulation across communities using ontologies. (2) Browsing tailored to collections. (3) Integration across interfaces and virtual environments. (4) Metadata interoperability and integration. (5) Social graph construction using logging and metrics. (6) Superimposed information and annotation integrated across distributed systems. (7) Streamlined user access with IDs. (8) Web 2.0 multiple social network system interconnection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1816123.1816174
JCDL
Keywords
Field
DocType
ensemble pdp-8,national science digital library,social graph construction,prior nsdl,streamlined user access,digital library application domain,ensemble r,broad range,multiple social network system,superimposed information,metadata interoperability,digital library,virtual environment,education system,ontology,distributed system,social network
Ontology (information science),Ontology,World Wide Web,Social network,Social graph,Annotation,Computer science,Metadata interoperability,Digital library,Multimedia,Personalization
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.69
3
Authors
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Edward A. Fox13966921.62
Yin-Lin Chen2233.81
Monika Akbar38312.22
Clifford A. Shaffer4999131.98
Stephen H. Edwards590682.41
Peter Brusilovsky65705616.46
Dan Garcia7204.68
Lois M. L. Delcambre8992420.78
Felicia Decker980.69
David W. Archer10505.28
Richard Furuta111017171.79
Frank Shipman1239832.95
Stephen Carpenter1380.69
Lillian N. Cassel14388110.81