Personalized Project Space For Managing Geographical Objects in G-Portal

Personalized project space is an important feature in GPortal to support learning activities. Users in G-Portal are assigned unique usernames and can be members of one or more groups. Within a personalized project space, an owner user can create, delete, and organise metadata referencing learning objects on the Web. Browsing metadata and querying them are among the functions provided to access the metadata. New metadata schemas can be added to a personalized project to accommodate metadata of diverse attribute sets. This paper also presents the “copy-and-paste” approach for users to easily share metadata across different projects, and a personal project viewer to support offline viewing of personalized project content.