David wrote to oss4lib-discuss: "Internet Scout Project [1] would like to invite potential portal developers to investigate the Scout Portal Toolkit [2] (SPT). This open source software package, funded by the Mellon Foundation, allows groups or organizations to develop a portal online without making a big investment in technical resources or expertise. The current SPT package features include: a metadata field editor, which allows portal administrators the ability to add, delete, or disable a variety of metadata fields; a Dublin Core compliant metadata field set; cross-field Searching; resource annotations and quality ratings by users; intelligent user agents; suggested resource referrals (recommender system); accessibility for users with disabilities; and RSS channel export."
Links:
[1] http://oss4lib.org/scout.cs.wisc.edu
[2] http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/SPT