What’s the Point II
There are a set of services that are either
- common to most portals such as “yellow-pages”, “search data archives”, security, collaboration, render XML to HTML for display
- common to most computing portals such as “visualization”, “seamless access to computers”, “execute program with particular programming model”
- specific to particular portal such as “filter SAR data”
One tries to construct “toolkit” and “template” for building portals
NCSA biology Workbench http://biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu was one of first computational portals
Gateway is one of most technically advanced portal toolkits with a specific chemistry instantiation
- see http://www.osc.edu/~kenf/theGateway/