User's Guide

The User's guide is targeted towards the end-user of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) setup using gCube tools. Focuses on the community portals the provide access to the VRE capabilities for content management and collection search/browsing. The guide conceptually comprises of two parts: a common part that described common functionality offered from any portal, and and application specific part describing the two portals implemented in the context of diligent for the ARTE and ImpECt communities respectively. The guide also include a chapter on User security describing the basic security concepts and established procedures that a user should know and follow respectively, in order to access a gCube community portal.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Basic Concepts
   1. Virtual Research Environments and Community Portals
   2. Content and Collections
   3. Content Annotation
   4. Metadata
3. Common Functionality
   1. Search
      1. Basic Search
      2. Advanced Search
      3. Collections Browsing
   2. Result Browsing
      1. The Basket
   3. Annotations
   4. Metadata Management
      1. Metadata Viewing
      2. Metadata Editing
   5. Index Management
      1. Full Text Index
      2. Geo Index
4. Administration
   1. VRE Monitoring
   2. VRE Management
      1. Resources Registration
      2. Resources Approval
      3. Services Deployment
   3. VRE Creation
5. User Security
   1. Security Basics
   2. Acquiring a Digital Certificate
   3. Registration Procedures
   4. Accessing a Community Portal
6. ARTE Applications
   1. Register
   2. Search Content
      1. Generic Search
      2. Simple Search
      3. Advanced Search
   3. Browse Content
   4. Edit/View Metadata
   5. Annotate Digital Objects
   6. Course Management System
   7. Create SCORM Packages
7. ImpECt Applications
   1. ImpECt Generic Search
   2. Geospatial Search
   3. Report Generation
8. References
9. Glossary