An Overview of the Internet Scout Project and the Scout Portal Toolkit

Edward Almasy
Technical Director
Internet Scout Project

Rachael Bower
Director
Internet Scout Project

The Internet Scout Project, located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focuses on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering and presenting online information and metadata. This presentation will provide a brief overview of current work and a more in-depth look at The Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) project, which was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. SPT is a near-turnkey software package that allows an organization, with a minimum of technical expertise and resources, to set up a digital library collection. Version 1.0 of the SPT software was released in October 2002.