Scout Portal Toolkit
Internet Scout Project is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of the Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT)!
This open source software package, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, allows groups or organizations to develop a portal online without making a big investment in technical resources or expertise. This release marks the first post-beta release of SPT.
Interested users and current beta testing organizations are strongly encouraged to offer feedback by taking a brief (12 questions) survey. This survey will help us gather information to refine SPT in future releases and evaluate our work to date.
The SPT 1.0.0 package features include:
- Shipped with a MySQL database with Dublin Core compliant metadata default fields
- Cross-Field Searching (Advanced Search)
- Metadata field editor, which allows portal administrators the ability to add, delete, or disable a variety of metadata fields
- Resource comments by Users
- Intelligent User Agents
- Resource Quality Ratings by Users
- Suggested Resource Referrals (Recommender System)
- Accessible to users with disabilities
- Support for RSS channel export and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
- Discussion forum options
More information on SPT and its features, to explore a demo installation, or to download the software is available on-line.
Specific comments, question and bug reports can be sent to [email protected].
Also, the November issue of D-LIB Magazine has an article on the SPT software. Discussed are the key features and functionality. The article may be found on-line.
The development team looks forward to hearing your feedback!
Thanks,
David J. Sleasman
Metadata and Cataloging Services Coordinator
Internet Scout Project
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phone: 608-263-2674
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu--Posted with permission
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