Towards Seamless Knowledge: Integrating Public Sector Portals
http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/abstracts/paper95.html

Pepper, Steve
IDEAlliance
2004

Abstract:

The more connected our computer systems become, the more we realise how *disconnected* our information really is. Disconnectedness is not new; it is simply far more apparent nowadays: so much so that it underpins a renewed quest for ways to integrate information - and knowledge. One aspect of this is the focus on information integration within large organizations. Another is the spread of portals whose task is not so much to provide information directly as to provide consolidated, indirect access to information that resides elsewhere. In the public sector, in particular, portals have sprung up like mushrooms over the last 3-4 years.