Lessons and outcomes from the Subject Portals Project

The paper proposes to investigate the purpose of the Subject Portals Project and the viability of using Open Source (OS).

The paper describes the Subject Portals Project.

The paper finds that the purpose of the Subject Portals Project was to enable the participating RDN hubs to become portals, implying an ability to integrate third‐party content and provide customised use. Portal functionality is key to presentation of data to end users, and so also vital to the Information Environment concept. A supplementary approach is to create portable functions or portlets that can be incorporated into other services.

The paper is useful to those planning to implement Subject Portals Project.