News - New subject portals come on stream

New subject portals come on stream

September 2003

Three new subject portals have recently been launched: TEd – the tertiary education portal, eLearn – the tertiary e-learning portal and the business portal www.biz.org.nz. These new sites have reused the work undertaken by the Department of Labour and other agencies in the sector to develop a metadata-driven portal of labour market information - WorkSite.

As with WorkSite, these subject-focussed portals have been delivered at a fraction of the price and in a fraction of the time of a stand-alone website. They have done this in part by tapping into the Metalogue repository of service and resource metadata and reusing the website code that makes this possible. So now rather than visit the government portal to get an overview of the government service in these areas, people are able to find what they need more easily through the specialist portals.

As more such portals come on stream, the relationship between the government portal and the specialist portals will need to be explored.