User's Guide

The User's guide is targeted towards the end-user of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) setup using gCube tools. It focuses on the community portals that provide access to the VRE capabilities for content management and collection search/browsing. The guide conceptually comprises of two parts: a common part that describes common functionality offered by any portal, and an application specific part describing the two portals implemented in the context of Diligent for the ARTE and ImpECt communities respectively. The guide also includes a chapter on User security describing the basic security concepts and establishes procedures that a user should know and follow in order to access a gCube community portal.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Basic Concepts
   1. Virtual Research Environments and Community Portals
   2. Content and Collections
   3. Content Annotation
   4. Metadata
3. Common Functionality
   1. Search
      1. Combined Search
      2. Simple Search
      3. Collections Browsing
      4. Quick Search
      5. Generic Search
   2. Result Browsing
      1. The Basket
   3. Annotations
   4. Metadata Management
      1. Metadata Viewing
      2. Metadata Editing
   5. User Profile Management
      1. User Profile Editing
      2. Profile Administration
4. Administration
   1. VRE Monitoring
   2. VRE Management
      1. Resources Registration
      2. Resources Approval
      3. Services Deployment
   3. VRE Creation
   4. Index Management
      1. Full Text Index
      2. Geo Index
5. User Security
   1. Security Basics
   2. Acquiring a Digital Certificate
   3. Accessing a Community Portal
6. ARTE Applications
   1. Register
   2. Search Content
      1. Generic Search
      2. Simple Search
      3. Advanced Search
   3. Browse Content
   4. Edit/View Metadata
   5. Annotate Digital Objects
   6. Course Management System
   7. Create SCORM Packages
7. ImpECt Applications
   1. ImpECt Generic Search
   2. Geospatial Search
   3. Report Generation
8. References
9. Bibliography
10. Glossary