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 Environment
   2. Login to a VO/VRE
   3. Search
      1. Select Collections
      2. Search
      3. Quick & Google Search
      4. Geospatial Search
   4. Result Browsing
      1. Common Browsing Activities
      2. The Basket
   5. Annotations
   6. Content Viewer
   7. User Profile Management
      1. User Profile Editing
   8. Report Management
      1. Template Creation
      2. Report Generation
   9. Course Management
   10. Time Series
   11. AquaMaps : Species Distribution and Biodiversity Maps
       1. Species Explorer
       2. Data Management Facility
   12. GeoExplorer : a visualization portlet for geo-spatial data
   13. Web Application Management
   14. WAR Management
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. References
6. Bibliography
7. Glossary