Introduction

* Portals and Portlets 2006 * 17-19th July, e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland.

http://www.grids.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/EResearch/PortalsAndPortlets2006

Dear All (and please broadcast to others who I forget),

It is soon to be exactly three years since our Portals and Portlets 2003 workshop. We are therefore organizing a similar event to review progress and best practice within the international community. This is to be held again at the UK National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh. Please see the information and registration page at the above URL. These will be updated over the next few weeks.

I am sending a reminder for this event to seek input and offers of additional technical presentations from which we will select the most relevant. I realize I do not have a complete list of those who might be interested, so I am hoping word will spread. We are particularly interested in technical input of a novel nature, such as use of new standards, interoperability, success in developing highly-functional portlets, solutions to authorization issues, portals using workflow, WSRF, etc. Usability of Web interfaces is being handled separately.

As last time we will also try to unite the e-Research (we are now using that name) and the Digital Information communities as there is currently a lot of interest in providing commonly-used services. We are also looking at portals as a User Interface component in a Service Oriented e-Framework, so there will be reports on activities in this area.

We are hoping to have a hands-on tutorial on developing portlets for uPortal on day 3, 19th July.

Please register for the event at the above URL if you would like to attend.

Best wishes, Rob (R.J. Allan)