DESIRE Information Gateways Handbook
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Information Gateways: Handbook
  1. Introduction and overview
 
Go to Strategic section  Section 1: Strategic Issues
 
  1. Information gateways overview
  2. Preliminary planning
  3. Staff and skills required overview
  4. System requirements overview
  5. Maintenance requirements
Go to Information section  Section 2: Information Issues
 
  1. Quality selection
  2. Resource discovery
  3. Metadata formats
  4. Cataloguing
  5. Subject indexing and classification
  6. Collection management
  7. Working with information providers
  8. Publicity and promotion
  9. User interface design
  10. Integration of robot and manual indexes
  11. Distributed cataloguing
  12. Multi-lingual issues
  13. Co-operation between gateways
Go to Technical section  Section 3: Technical Issues
 
  1. System requirements specifics, hardware and software
  2. User interface implementation
  3. Accessibility and usability
  4. Harvesting, indexing and automated metadata collection
  5. User profiles
  6. Interoperability
  7. Scalability
  8. Future proofing
Appendixes: Glossary
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