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Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE)

The VACCINE Center at Purdue University has begun utilizing a web portal called Liferay to promote the sharing of information with its partners. Liferay provides a web platform for building web applications, portals and websites. It provides features like a web content management system, an integration platform for integrating different web applications, a collaboration platform for an entire organization, and a container for social applications platform.

Liferay contains such features as blogs, calendar, mail, message boards, wiki, document library, web content display, Google maps, announcements, etc.  Liferay also allows you to install additional plugins, which make web content management/publishing easier and manageable.

An important feature is the document repository to share documents through a user-friendly web interface.  VACCINE partner schools can post their publications on Liferay so that other partners can view them easily.  In addition to this document repository, it also provides a workflow approval process that enables content publishers to approve any content written by contributors before publishing, which will prove useful if articles are being co-written by researchers from multiple schools. Portal administrators can also restrict access to different type of content based on the roles/type of users.