Workshop Session A7:
"Embedding Third Party Services in Web Sites and Portals - From Links to WSRP the Pros and Cons"
This page provides details for the workshop session on
"Embedding Third Party Services in Web Sites and Portals - From Links to WSRP the Pros and Cons".
- Title:
- Embedding Third Party Services in Web Sites and Portals - From Links to WSRP the Pros and Cons
- Facilitator:
- Tom Franklin, Franklin Consulting
- Abstract:
- Institutional portals and Web sites are beginning to make use of third party
sources in systematic ways. There are now an increasing number of ways in which
this can be done including:
- Linking to external sites (or channels)
- Linking to external sites with customisation information in the link
- Linking to external sites using single sign-on techniques
- Embedding stand alone channels
- Embedding sites through the use of CSS
- Embedding sites through the use of HTML fragments
- SOAP / JSR168
- WSRP
The workshop will help you to explore the issues in using these, and other techniques,
to include third party channels, exploring the advantages and disadvantages
(for instance in the degree of customisation available) and the effort involved.
Connects, the Learning and Teaching Portal, will be used as a case study as it
offers most of these techniques - see
<http://www.connect.ac.uk/>
- Learning Outcomes:
- By the end of the session participants will have gained an understanding of
the wide variety of techniques which can be used to embed external sites and channels
within their own Web sites or portals. They will also have an idea of the advantages
and disadvantages of the various techniques and the skill and effort required to
implement them, which can then be used to decide what channels and sites to
include within their own portals or web sites, and where multiple methods are
offered to choose the most suitable.
- Room Requirements:
- PC and data projector.
- Venue:
- Conference Room 5 (capacity 14/25).
See venue details.
- Time:
- This session took place from 16:00-17:30 on Wednesday 6th July 2005.
- Contact Details
- Tom Franklin
Franklin Consulting
9 Redclyffe Road
Withington
Manchester
M20 3JR
Email: tom AT franklin-consulting.co.uk
