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the Scholar’s Box that will enable faculty, students, and the public to create, manipulate, annotate, and share personal collections of digital cultural objects gathered from multiple digital repositories
Ideally, the Scholar’s Box would enable users to draw upon multiple sources in seamless, integrated ways regardless of underlying protocols and data/metadata encoding schemes.
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.