Supporting Knowledge Management and Collaboration in Research Communities Using Automatically Created Research Portals

Authors:
Jörg Becker;Tobias Heide;Ralf Knackstedt;Matthias Steinhorst
Affiliations:
European Research Center for Information Systems ERCIS,University of Münster, Leonardo-Campus 3, Münster, Germany;European Research Center for Information Systems ERCIS, University of Münster, Leonardo-Campus 3, Münster, Germany;Institute for Business Economics and Information Systems, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany;European Research Center for Information Systems ERCIS, University of Münster, Leonardo-Campus 3, Münster, Germany
Venue:
International Journal of Web Portals
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Research portals have been proposed as a means of managing knowledge and fostering collaboration in research communities. However, implementing and maintaining a research portal is costly and involves a lot of technical knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a research portal generator designed to automatically create such portals. The generator provides a configurable set of knowledge management and collaboration features. The purpose of the generator is to ease the process of setting up and using a research portal. The paper contributes to promoting research portals as a means of sharing knowledge and facilitating collaboration in research communities. Following a design science research process, the authors derive objectives for a research portal generator, iteratively implement these objectives, and evaluate the functionality of the created portals against the current state of the art of 813 research portals. They demonstrate that portals created by the generator exhibit a consistently higher level of maturity than research portals currently present on the Internet.