The Scholar's Box:
A Tool for Gathering, Creating, and Sharing
Reusable Digital Learning and Research Content
Raymond Yee
Technology Architect, Interactive University Project
University of California, Berkeley
David Greenbaum
Director, Interactive University Project
University of California, Berkeley
Peter Brantley
Director of Technology
California Digital Library
The Scholar's Box is a tool that enables users to gather resources from
multiple digital repositories in order to create personal and themed
collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others
for teaching and research. As such, it sits at the interstices of digital
libraries, educational technology, personal information spaces, and
social software.
Even at an early stage of development, the Scholar's Box
showcases the many fruitful possibilities and deep challenges emerging
from practical interoperability among these still thinly connected domains.
This briefing will include a demonstration of the Scholar's Box, and
a discussion of the strategic, functional, and technical design challenges
behind the tool, including the perspective of a major digital library.
Web Links:
http://iu.berkeley.edu/iu
http://www.cdlib.org/
Presentation:
The
Scholar's Box (PDF)