SmartFox: the Scholar’s Browser for Digital Collections

SmartFox: the Scholar’s Browser for Digital Collections

SmartFox: the Scholar’s Browser for Digital Collections

SmartFox, a set of tools incorporated into popular, open, and free web software, will address these major problems by creating a web browser that is “smarter” in two key ways. First, one tool will enable the browser to intelligently sense when its user is viewing a digital library or museum object; this will allow the browser to capture information from the page automatically, such as the creator, title, date of creation, and copyright information. Second, another tool will store and organize this information, as well as full copies of items and web pages (not just their citation information) if so desired by the user and permitted by the institution’s site, allowing the user to sort, annotate, search, and manipulate these individualized collections created for scholarly purposes. Critically, all of this will occur within the web browser itself, not in a separate, standalone application; the web browser will be used not just to discover information, but also to collect, organize, and analyze scholarly materials.

10/01/2005

09/30/2008

Roy Rosenzweig

Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen

Josh Greenberg

Sean Takats

Sean Takats

Trevor Owens

Institute of Museum and Library Services

$249,420

2007, Best Free Software, PC Magazine

2008, Best Free Software, PC Magazine

2007, Best Software, American Political Science Association