Australian Subject Gateways Forum

Requirements for Subject Gateway Software

The information below is not intended as an exhaustive or prescriptive list but rather a useful checklist of common and/or desirable features. The list is based on the experience of a number of the Australian subject gateways, particularly AVEL and Agrigate.

Suggestions for additions or updates are welcome - please contact the Library's Coordination Support Branch at: csb@nla.gov.au.


Repository

Features

Maintenance

Importing and exporting

Statistics

Top

Manual entry tool

General

Communications with repository

Schema

Assistance

Top

Automatic entry tool

Top

Search interface

Search features

Display

Statistics

Top

Browse interface

Customised interface

Top

"What's New"

Top

Document History

Barbara Rozmus, NLA
Initial Draft: November 2000, based on a document provided by Jan Whitaker

Date last verified: 14 January 2004

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