User's Guide

The User's guide is targeted towards the end-user of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). It focuses on the community portals that provide access to the VRE capabilities for content management and collaboration.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Basic Concepts
3. Common Functionality
   1. Workspace
   2. Login to a VO/VRE
   3. Search
      1. Select Collections
      2. Search
         1. Search panel
         2. Browse panel
         3. Refine Search panel
            1. Refine the results of submitted queries
            2. Submit queries from user's workspace
      3. Common Browsing Activities
      4. The Basket
   4. Annotations
   5. Content Viewer
      1. Transforming the selected object
   6. User Profile Management
      1. User Profile Editing
   7. Report Management
      1. Template Creation
      2. Report Generation
   8. Time Series
   9. AquaMaps Suite
   10. Course Management
   11. Document Workflows
       1. Workflow Editor : Create and Manage workflow templates
       2. Document Workflow Manager : Create and Manage document workflows
       3. My Document Workflows : Edit and View your document workflows
   12. Time Series
   13. AquaMaps : Species Distribution and Biodiversity Maps
       1. Species Explorer
       2. Data Management Facility
   14. GeoExplorer : a visualization portlet for geo-spatial data
   15. WebApp Management
       1. Web Application Management
       2. WAR Management
   16. Data Transfer Facility
       1. Scheduler Portlet
       2. Storage Manager Portlet
4. Usage Scenarios
   1. Login to a portal instance and select a VRE
   2. Perform a search and view the metadata of a record
   3. Annotating Information Objects
   4. Send a workspace area item to another user
   5. Acces workspace from Desktop
5. References
6. Bibliography
7. Glossary