Web Junction

Web Junction A Community-Based Portal for the Israeli Information Specialists and Library Experts Ami Salant and Sigalit Adani November 21 2007 WWW.I-ZM.INFO

The Need In the rapidly evolving research scene of today, a vast diversity of information is becoming

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electronically available. The information environment is highly distributed, highly dynamic, and extremely heterogeneous.

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The Need and constraints

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One of the great research challenges posed by this environment is finding useful information relevant and practical for information specialists.

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Dissemination of reliable and up-to-date research-based information is shaped by a perpetual cycle of time constraints and limited access to published resources.

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The Solution

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Established and resourceful journals are scattered around with no single entry of access.

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Because of the dispersal of the professional information among various factors and documenting systems, a global integrative content portal in the field of information science has been set up in Israel.

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The aim of the portal is to cover contents that are relevant to this field to be dealt with in greater depth. Web Junction, Ami Salant & Sigalit Adani

Seeking a solution -1

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In recent years, we have witnessed the development of information centers on the Internet whose objective is to present the users with a more complete picture of the information.

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Seeking a solution – 2

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Portals - these information centers are known as portals, and are sometimes called vertical portals or content portals.

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Content - the portal is not simply a technological solution to the problem of the dispersal and fragmenting of information, but also a systematic perception that filters, distills, and unifies the information sources.

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A portal can now be viewed as a thin layer that aggregates, integrates, digests and presents information, to the users in a manner independent of browser platform or location.

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Here comes Web Junction

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The Web Junction portal complements the existing repositories by providing a unified user interface to the content.

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This kind of resource discovery is deemed most essential for the information specialists who want to see all research findings and resources that are relevant and available for their subject.

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The objective of the Web Junction portal is to permit the coordinated collection, processing, and distribution of information sources into one integrative “reservoir”. Web Junction, Ami Salant & Sigalit Adani

The WEB JUNCTION coordinated solution

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The WEB JUNCTION content portal enables information sources to be constructed.

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In other words, the information is consolidated according to defined templates, meaningful categories are created, and contents that are scattered throughout various technological websites are channeled into a unified web-based platform according to defined and agreed categories. Web Junction, Ami Salant & Sigalit Adani

Why is it a community-based portal?

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We encourage information specialist in Israel and abroad to deposit data, results, reports and publications in a unified platform of global repositories available to them via the internet .

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This platform includes a possibility to create your own blog and publish it on the Web Junction platform Web Junction, Ami Salant & Sigalit Adani

Why a community-based solution? 

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The Web Junction project entails the close connection to a Community of Practice through the establishment and maintenance of information specialists networks of interested stakeholders that discuss, share ideas, find solutions relating to retrieval process (search engines) and available databases . Web Junction, Ami Salant & Sigalit Adani

How do we operate?

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Digest of various articles and research papers are prepared and then distributed through the subject categories of the WEB JUNCTION portal .

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Web Junction subject categories 

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Subject categories included in portal – Business information and markets – Internet news – Information management – Knowledge management – Competitive intelligence – Library and information centers – Search engines and strategies – Online databases – Conferences and in-service training – Books and book reviews – Technology corner – Web 2.0 Web Junction, Ami Salant & Sigalit Adani

Dynamic keywords relation

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Besides main headings and categories each record includes controlled keywords from a controlled list.

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The keyword list is dynamic in each record namely it is fully linked to other keywords in similar subjects. The keyword list is also presented in the front page of the Web Junction portal. Web Junction, Ami Salant & Sigalit Adani

Information distribution

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We have created a coordinated software program to distribute selected abstracts and articles to those information specialists in Israel who subscribe to the WEB JUNCTION PORTAL.

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Every second week or every month the receive a newsletter covering the new updates within the WEB JUNCTION content categories. Each category is actually represented in the Web Junction, Ami Salant & Sigalit Adani newsletter.

Future plans -1 

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The Web Junction portal will eventually provide a rapidly deployed and easily adopted Web-based collaborative workspace that enables distributed teams to work together more efficiently.

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We are lately probing and researching various technologies for this end such as the eRoom technological solution, allowing information specialists to customize and use their collaborative workspaces to support a wide range of research processes .

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See you in Web Junction 

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Thank you and do not forget to join our distribution list at the Web Junction Portal

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