KPs supports and stimulates knowledge transfer, knowledge storage and retrieval, knowledge creation, knowledge integration, and knowledge application by providing access to relevant knowledge artifacts.

The repository of information to which it provides access.

A system designed to provide secure, customizable, personalizable, and integrated access to dynamic information from a variety of sources, in a variety of source formats.

A type of KMS that strive to provide a ‘one-stop knowledge shop’, that is, a single point of access to the knowledge available in an organization.

The more users consider knowledge to be personally valuable, the less likely they are to contribute it to a KP.

The more a user uses a KP personally, the more likely the user is to contribute to the KP.

The more a user feels part of the group using the KP, the more like the user is to contribute to the KP.

The more competitive the organizational culture, the less likely a user is to contribute to a KP.

The stronger the social norms for contribution or use created by the organizational culture, the more likely a user is to use a KP.

Users will be more likely to contribute to a KP if there are group-level performance rewards than if there are individual-level performance rewards.

The more diverse and tacit the knowledge, the less successful the KP will be in providing knowledge integration.

The more diverse the needs of users of a KP, the less successful the KP will be in providing knowledge integration.

Stronger knowledge validation efforts will increase perceived knowledge quality and so better enable knowledge integration.

Stronger knowledge validation efforts will increase the perceived difficulty of contributing and so decrease contributions.

It is a note storing and discussion website.

The system consists of a browser plugin and a website that stores and provides the data on the corresponding website

It allows the user to write a comment or question about the website he or she is currently browsing, or block that website
from being accessed again.

It displays previously saved notes, and blocks access to sites that have been previously blocked by the user.

The discussions are conveniently structured, which means if you are accessing the website from the plugin it is possible to reply to any post by clicking a button next to it..

It manages the login and lets the user write a note about the website he or she is viewing at any time.

The system notifies the users of relevant notes and replies by other people to his or her notes.

It enables writing notes, as well as displaying saved notes and blocking the user from revisiting websites again that were blocked.

The discussions and has the interfaces for managing the notes.

Reading replies or even reading discussions about other websites.

A user that is logged in can directly reply to any note there and provide a rating of the website in his or her reply.

It links the notes to educational material to facilitate improvement of user knowledge.

The website should be accessed through the plugin. The user may not be recognized and would not be able to respond to any discussions.

This feature aims at connecting the concrete use of the platform with educational background material to support cybersecurity education for the users of the platform.

It points to relevant educational resources based on the discussions of a specific website.

The main goal of the project “Knowledge Portal” is to develop a central access system in terms of a “single point of access” for all electronic information services.

These sources – from the library’s catalogue and full text in house applications to external, licensed sources – should be accessible via one central web service.

The possibility of searching in a clear and simple way has also changed the search behaviour of library users.

Increasing electronic service portfolio of nearly all science libraries, which ranges from ubiquitous electronic journals, via bibliographic and full-text databases, audiovisual media and digitized visual material to full-text documents from institutional servers.

Library-specific content should be presented in special information packages, which could come from different sources;

KP should be possible to configure the application according to group and/or individual interests;

The authentication processes should correspond to a single-sign-on procedure.

The integration of sources internal and external to the university should be possible.

Improvement of access and usability.

The whole idea and of going back to a fairly clear library-focused approach, where library-related information packages were at the center of all efforts.

Knowledge Portal was and still is the setup of a central and simultaneously integrated access system to the heterogeneous information portfolio of ETH Libraries and Collections.

Integration of the applications library homepage and access via myLibrary.

A consistent and ”simple“ search screen for internal and external users.

User-relevant content can already be searched at the presentation level.

The portal screen consists of the homepage and additional search functions.

Metasearching abilities for the whole product portfolio.

Range of functions they need for an efficient search for relevant information.

An analysis of the actual situation, on a user-centered design process and on integrating Primo into the web portal.

The description of the status quo analysis of the actual situation is a complex and time-consuming process, in which the project group defines for which subjects information packages exist and how this information is presented.

1. Prototype structure of the future portal is created as a paper version, which already shows the most important content and functions.

2. The context is currently done by the project group and primarily covers the final definition of the information structure.

3. At the end of the process the actual Knowledge portal is the result of the seamless integration of the Primo software.

This means that the plan to introduce different versions, which will be upgraded and enlarged step-by-step in form and content.

Web portal with an integrated Primo system for searching and access to relevant information resources;

Library-internal resources, the catalogue database (NEBIS) and the picture database (E-pics) are accessible.

Library-external resources, relevant journal articles are accessible via Metalib and Third node.

There is a solution for the trilingual Universal Decimal Classification (UDC).

Customizing a new IT application in a library always means finding a balance between a pragmatic approach from a user‘s point of view and the perfectionism of the librarian.

System discontinuities, there will be faults in using the
cataloguing rules, there will be changes in the catalogue vocabulary and all this has to be optimized with reasonable effort.

The Primo software is actually existing only in a monolingual version, which means that this is part of the formal cooperation between ExLibris and the library.

Creating a single sign-on strategy for the portal should be realizable for the university-internal user, but what is the solution for external users.

If a library develops a project of this size and of this relevance to the university community, it is indispensable to have commercial partners.

The request that the software tool should seamlessly fit into the library’s homepage.

The integration of external information packages is a challenging task, which needs discussion and a lot of technical preparations with our partners.