Difference between revisions of "User's Guide"

Revision as of 16:33, 20 November 2008

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 D4Science for the FARM 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. Select Collections
      2. Combined Search
      3. Simple Search
      4. Collections Browsing
      5. Search in Previous Results
      6. Quick and Google Search
      7. 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
   6. Generic Resources Management
      1. Generic Resource Management
4. User Security
   1. Security Basics
   2. Acquiring a Digital Certificate
   3. Accessing a Community Portal
5. Enviromental Monitoring (EM) Applications
   1. Generic Search
   2. Geospatial Search
   3. Report Generation
   4. Course Management System
   5. Create SCORM Packages
6. Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management Applications
7. References
8. Bibliography
9. Glossary