Editing Web portal (section)

==Types==

=== News portal ===
A news portal is an online gallery, index and search engine for news published online. It may cater to specific interest or language or target a wider market.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jamil |first=Normala Binti Che Eembi @ |last2=Ishak |first2=Iskandar Bin |last3=Sidi |first3=Fatimah |last4=Affendey |first4=Lilly Suriani |last5=Mamat |first5=Ali |date=2015 |title=A Systematic Review on the Profiling of Digital News Portal for Big Data Veracity |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1877050915036157 |journal=Procedia Computer Science |language=en |volume=72 |pages=390–397 |doi=10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.154|doi-access=free }}</ref>

=== Web portal ===
A web portal is a website that provides a broad array of services, such as [[Search engine|search engines]], [[E-Mail|e-mail]], [[online shopping]], and [[Internet forum|forums]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Rahman|first=Hakikur|title=Social and Political Implications of Data Mining: Knowledge Management in E-Government|publisher=IGI Global|year=2009|isbn=978-1-60566-231-2|pages=47}}</ref> American web portals included [[Pathfinder_(website)|Pathfinder]], [[Excite (web portal)|Excite]], [[Netscape]]'s Net Center, [[Go.com|Go]], [[NBC#NBCi|NBC]], [[MSN]], [[Lycos]], Voila, [[Yahoo!]], and [[Google Search]].<ref name=":0" />

===Personal portal===

A personal portal is a Web Page at a Website on the [[World Wide Web]] or a local HTML home page including JavaScript and perhaps running in a modified [[Web browser]]. A personal portal typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors or its local user, providing a pathway to other content. It may be designed to use [[distributed application]]s, different numbers and types of [[Middleware (distributed applications)|middleware]] and hardware to provide services from a number of different sources and may run on a non-standard local Web server. In addition, business portals can be designed for sharing and collaboration in workplaces. A further business-driven requirement of portals is that the content be presented on multiple platforms such as [[personal computer]]s, laptops, tablet computers, [[personal digital assistant]]s (PDAs), [[cell phone]]s and [[smartphone]]s.

Information, news, and updates are examples of content that could be delivered through such a portal. Personal portals can be related to any specific topic such as providing friends information on a social network or providing links to outside content that may help others beyond the reach of services. Portals are not limited to simply providing links. Outside of business intranet user, very often simpler portals become replaced with richer mashup designs. Within enterprises, early portals were often replaced by much more powerful "dashboard" designs. Some also have relied on newer protocols such as some version of RSS aggregation and may or may not involve some degree of Web harvesting.

===Government===
At the end of the dot-com boom in the 1990s, many governments had already committed to creating government web portal sites for their citizens. These included primary portals to the governments as well as portals developed for specific branches (e.g., a particular government ministry, department or agency), or for specific sub-audiences (e.g., senior citizens, parents, post-secondary students, etc.). Notable government web portals include:
*[[Digital identity in Australia#myGov|my.gov.au]] for [[Australia]].
*[[Europa (web portal)]] links to all EU agencies and institutions in addition to press releases and audiovisual content from press conferences.
*[[USAGov en Español]] for the United States (in Spanish).
*[[USA.gov]] for the United States (in English).
*[[Disability.gov]] for citizens with disabilities in the United States.
*[[gov.uk]] for citizens & [[businesslink.gov.uk]] for businesses in the United Kingdom.
*[[Health-EU portal]] gathers all relevant health topics from across Europe.
*[[india.gov.in]] for [[India]].
*[[National Resource Directory]] links to resources for United States Service Members, Veterans and their families.

===Cultural===
Cultural portals aggregate digitised cultural collections of galleries, libraries (see: [[library portal]]), archives and museums. This type of portal provides a point of access to [[Deep Web (search indexing)|invisible Web]] cultural content that may not be indexed by standard search engines. Digitised collections can include scans or digital photos of books, artworks, photography, journals, newspapers, maps, diaries and letters and digital files of music, sound recordings, films, and archived websites as well as the descriptive [[metadata]] associated with each type of cultural work (e.g., metadata provides information about the author, publisher, etc.). These portals are often based around a specific national or regional groupings of institutions. Notable cultural portals include:
*[[Digital Public Library of America]] (in development)
*[[DigitalNZ]] – A cultural portal led by the National Library of New Zealand focused on New Zealand digital content.
*[[Europeana]] – A cultural portal for the European Union based in the National Library of the Netherlands and overseen by the Europeana Foundation.
*[[TUT.by]] - A commercial cultural portal focused on Belarusian digital content.

===Corporate===
{{Main|Intranet portal}}
Corporate intranets became common during the 1990s. As intranets grew in size and complexity, organization webmasters were faced with increasing content and user management challenges. A consolidated view of company information was judged insufficient; users wanted personalization and customization. Webmasters, if skilled enough, were able to offer some capabilities, but for the most part ended up driving users away from using the intranet. Many companies began to offer tools to help webmasters manage their data, applications and information more easily, and by providing different users with personalized views. Portal solutions can also include workflow management, collaboration between work groups or branches, and policy-managed content publication. Most can allow internal and external access to specific corporate information using secure authentication or [[single sign-on]].

JSR168 Standards emerged around 2001. Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 standards allow the interoperability of [[portlets]] across different portal platforms. These standards allow portal developers, administrators and consumers to integrate standards-based portals and portlets across a variety of vendor solutions. The concept of content aggregation seems to still gain momentum and portal solution will likely continue to evolve significantly over the next few years. The [[Gartner Group]] predicts generation 8 portals to expand on the [[Business Mashups]] concept of delivering a variety of information, tools, applications and access points through a single mechanism.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}{{Better source|date=July 2019}}

With the increase in [[user-generated content]] (blog posts, comments, photos), disparate data silos, and file formats, information architects and taxonomists will be required to allow users the ability to tag (classify) the data or content. For example, if a vice-president makes a blog post, this post could be tagged with their name, title, and the subject of the post. Tagging makes it easier for users of the intranet to find the content they are interested in. This will ultimately cause a ripple effect where users will also be generating ad hoc navigation and information flows. Corporate portals also offer customers and employees self-service opportunities.

===Search===

Search portals aggregate results from several search engines into one page. Users can find search portals specialized in a product, for example property search portals. Library search portals are also known as discovery interfaces.

====Property search====

Property search portals aggregate data about properties for sale or rent by real estate agents or vendors. Notable agent search portals in the UK include [[Nestoria]], [[Nuroa]], [[OnTheMarket]], [[Rightmove]] and [[Zoopla]]. Notable vendor (seller or landlord) portals in the UK include [[OpenRent]] and [[Gumtree]].

===Tender===
A tender portal is a gateway for government suppliers to bid on providing goods and services. Tender portals allow users to search, modify, submit, review and archive data in order to provide a complete online tendering process.

Using online tendering, bidders can do any of the following:
*Receive notification of the tenders.
*Receive tender documents online.
*Fill out the forms online.
*Submit proposals and documents.
*Submit bids online.

===Hosted===
Hosted Web portals gained popularity and a number of companies began offering them as a hosted service. The hosted portal market fundamentally changed the composition of portals. In many ways they served simply as a tool for publishing information instead of the loftier goals of integrating legacy applications or presenting correlated data from distributed databases. The early hosted portal companies such as [[Hyperoffice|Hyperoffice.com]] or the now defunct InternetPortal.com focused on collaboration and scheduling in addition to the distribution of corporate data. As hosted Web portals have risen in popularity their feature set has grown to include hosted databases, document management, email, discussion fora and more. Hosted portals automatically personalize the content generated from their modules to provide a personalized experience to their users. In this regard they have remained true to the original goals of the earlier corporate Web portals.

Emerging new classes of Internet portals called Cloud Portals are showcasing the power of API (Application Programming Interface) rich software systems leveraging SOA ([[service-oriented architecture]], Web services, and custom data exchange) to accommodate machine to machine interaction creating a more fluid user experience for connecting users spanning multiple domains during a given "session". Cloud portals like [[Nubifer Cloud Portal]] show what is possible using Enterprise Mashup and Web Service integration approaches to building cloud portals.

===Domain-specific===
A number of portals have come about which are specific to a particular domain, offering access to related companies and services; a prime example of this trend would be the growth in property portals that give access to services such as [[estate agent]]s, [[moving company|removal firm]], and [[solicitor]]s that offer [[Licensed Conveyancer|conveyancing]]. Along the same lines, industry-specific news and information portals have appeared, such as the [[Clinical Trial Portal|clinical trials-specific portal]].