The move to using portals to distribute medical information is supported by Australian Governments and government agencies. The recent success of ‘telemedicine’ is promising for patients and governments alike as it could provide quality care and convenience for patients and reduces the burden on the health budget for governments. The Australian Government is taking a proactive role in developin...

Purpose – To present the state of the arts application of semantic web technologies in web portals and corresponding achievable improvements for identifying the potential improvement made by semantic web technology. Design/methodology/approach – An evaluation scheme is proposed to investigate various web portals that make use of semantic web technologies in order to identify their strengths and...

Purpose – Knowledge management (KM) is an important consideration in e-government portals to ensure that knowledge flows efficiently between governments, individuals and organisations. A crucial aspect of e-government portals that has not been addressed adequately is the extent to which KM mechanisms have been implemented. Specifically, the authors argue that appropriate KM mechanisms are neces...

This study examines whether behavioral and demographical factors such as previous web use experience, type of web portal used, age, and gender influence user satisfaction with web portals, and whether user satisfaction influences usage of portals. A total of 340 undergrad and graduate students participated in a survey on their usage and satisfaction with different portals. The results show that...

Grid portals are emerging as convenient mechanisms for providing the scientific community with familiar and simplified interfaces to the Grid. Our experience in implementing Grid portals has led to the creation of GridPort: a unique, layered software system for building Grid Portals. This system has several unique features: the software is portable and runs on most webservers; written in Perl/C...

Portals allow easy access to information by integrating heterogeneous applications or data sources in consistent way. It gives users a personalized and restricted view of domain information. Standard portal features could be improved employing semantic web technologies. Although portals are now experiencing serious growth just as number of available semantic web tools, number of semantic web po...

Web portals are being considered as excellent means for conducting teaching and learning activities electronically. The number of online services such as course enrollment, tutoring through online course materials, evaluation and even certification through web portals is increasing day by day. However, the effectiveness of an educational web portal depends on its accessibility to a wide range o...

Web portals have emerged as an important means of collaboration on the WWW, and the integration of ontologies promises to make them more accurate in how they serve users collaboration and information location requirements. However, web portals are essentially a centralised architecture resulting in difficulties supporting seamless roaming between portals and collaboration between groups support...