ScholarsBox/OtherInspiringProjects

In building the ScholarsBox, we look to many other projects for guidance, infrastructure, ideas, and plain inspiration. Some of these projects are

EccoPro: a PersonalInformationManager that allows users to gather a lot of different thoughts in outlines -- and a very solid program.
ChandlerProject: a next-generation PersonalInformationManager that might be a worthy successor to EccoPro
MultivalentBrowser: the coolest "next-generation" browser/document infrastructure that I've seen -- the closest thing I know to a UniversalCanvas.
EclipseProject
ZopeProject, including PloneProject and how Plone being used by the ConnexionsProject
AppleComputers/IlifeSuite
AdobeAcrobat
WaldensPathsProject
StuffIveSeenProject: if we could have a program/system to keep track of what we've seen/browsed/done already and connect that to the ChandlerProject and a MultivalentBrowser --that would be great.
VueTool -- a mindmap tool that uses some of the MitOki OSIDS
ScholarsPortal
Hunter Gatherer
a variety of OutliningPrograms
FurlProject: a server-side URL gatherer
KeepingFoundThingsFound: might give us insight into how to organize the collections that we let people make in the ScholarsBox.
DavidWiley/InstructionalArchitect and DavidWiley/EduCommons
PortoleProject: a project funded to explore interoperability between libraries and educational technology (see ImsCniWhitepaper2003, for example)
NetSnippets
OnFolio
del.icio.us
Tk4System

Tools to borrow code from?

Recently, there are a number of e-learning related tools written in PythonLanguage from which we might learn and/or borrow:

Schooltool, written in Python. -- what can we learn from it?
eclass.net looks really interesting: implemented in PythonLanguage, being built at Tufts (?), a tool for creating learning content, page-based export, etc.

Time to look more at SHAME (Standardized Hyper Adaptable Metadata Editor) and SCAM (Standardised Content Archive Management) -- which I learned about from an article from Wilbert Kraan of CETIS: Using SHAME to fill your SCAM. What's interesting about these projects is their use of the RdfSpec.