Open Source and Higher Education u Portal Sakai

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

JA-SIG and u. Portal JA-SIG • Java In Administration Special Interest Group • www. ja-sig. org. uk • National and regional conferences • Clearing house • https: //www. mis 4. udel. edu/Jasig. CH/ • Collaborative projects

JA-SIG and u. Portal 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.

Activities JA-SIG and u. Portal The JA-SIG membership is engaged in three activities. 1. Sponsorship of a twice-annual conference in the U. S. and one in the U. K. 2. JA-SIG Clearinghouse - a place on the Web to facilitate the sharing of Java and XML components. 3. Development of a free, open source, open standard portal for higher education: u. Portal.

JA-SIG and u. Portal 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…

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

JA-SIG and u. Portal Red Universitaria Nacional

JA-SIG and u. Portal Denison University

JA-SIG and u. Portal Cornell University

JA-SIG and u. Portal Why u. Portal? • Features important to higher education • 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

JA-SIG and u. Portal Higher Education • Most of these features apply to Higher Education • u. Portal is bridging the gap between corporate portals and the needs of Higher Education Institutions

JA-SIG and u. Portal Why open standards? • Sharing: Interoperability (component architecture) • Risk Management: Ability to change software if needed • Architecture: Choice of components

Mentoring JA-SIG and u. Portal Area Internationalization (XLIFF) Layout (XSLT) Affiliation Oracle Corporation 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

Business relationships JA-SIG and u. Portal Firm Area i. Assessment K-12 teacher assessment Unicon, Inc. Academus learning system and u. Portal technical support Higher education administrative suite SCT Corporation the r*smart group Electronic portfolio

JA-SIG and u. Portal Types of portals Personalized display u. Portal 2. 0 framework Integration u. Portal 2. 0 + Web Services + Adapters Enterprise u. Portal 2. 3 + Web Services Enterprise Process u. Portal 3. 0 + Sakai workflow

JA-SIG and u. Portal Multiple target devices

JA-SIG and u. Portal Current Work: Accessibility

JA-SIG and u. Portal Current Work: Accessibility

JA-SIG and u. Portal Industry Recognition

JA-SIG and u. Portal The future • Continue deployment • Industry-based technical support • Cooperative development of commercial products by business partners • Further development of the portal itself • Sakai Project 2004 -2006 • Coordinated development of products using u. Portal (e. g. Sakai partners)

JA-SIG and u. Portal

JA-SIG and u. Portal

JA-SIG and u. Portal

JA-SIG and u. Portal

The End Justin E. Tilton jet@immagic. com www. immagic. com