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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Awre [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 June 2003 12:55
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Subject: FW: Portals & Portlets 2003

With regard to a message I sent out on 2nd June, please note that the website given has subsequently moved to http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/261/.  Latest details on the meeting are now available at this site.

Regards,

Chris

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Chris Awre

Programme Manager

JISC

3rd Floor, Strand Bridge House

138-142, The Strand

London WC2R 1HH

Tel: 020 7848 2820

email: [log in to unmask]

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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Chris Awre [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   02 June 2003 17:34
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Subject:        Portals & Portlets 2003

With apologies for cross-posting
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Portals and Portlets2003
http://umbriel.dcs.gla.ac.uk/nesc/general/esi/events/261/
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Dates: July 14-17th 2003
Venue: ESI, NeSC, South College Street, Ediburgh.

Organisers: Rob Allan, Michael Russell, Jason Novotny and Dave Berry.

Aim:

This workshop, to be hosted at the UK National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, falls within the remit of the Grid Computing Environments

research group of the Global Grid Forum. Attendees will be from groups worldwide active in developing generic portal and portlet technologies or in applying such frameworks to e-Science tasks such as client-side Grid interfaces and Problem Solving Environments. The first two days of the workshop will be of wide interest and will provide information and review current projects. The second two days will aim to identify current research issues, future directions and areas where shared technology can accelerate the deployment and uptake of e-Science.

We will aim to write up the proceedings from this meeting to form a short report or "research monograph".

Agenda:

Day 1) Portal Technologies.

The aim of this day is to show what portal user interfaces and generic frameworks people are using so far: toolkits like GridPort, GPDK,

uPortal, iPortal, JSP technology, problems with plugins to Tomcat with general technical overviews and some examples posters.

To include:
Overviews of Academic Portal Technology:
Overviews of Commercial Portal Technology:

Day 2) Portlet Frameworks.

The aim of this day is to show how portlets are used and how they can encapsulate underlying functionality for Portals and PSEs.

Day 3) Portal services and what functionality is required for PSEs

The aim of this day is to consider re-usable architectures, common components and underlying Web and Grid  services. Discuss the need for "Portal services" for things like the "3 As", distributed session management, Integrating state, Workflow services, etc. How can we use OGSA to build them? What high-level services are missing for building portals and PSEs etc. e.g. personalisation and "lab notebook" services? 

Day 4) How to bring these services into customisable portals.

Aim for this day is to discuss the requirements and abilities of portals for several projects to share underlying technology.

How can we host portal services and share them. We do not want to duplicate services. Round table discussion and/ or practial work.

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Chris Awre

Programme Manager

JISC

3rd Floor, Strand Bridge House

138-142, The Strand

London WC2R 1HH

Tel: 020 7848 2820

email: [log in to unmask]

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