Marmot™ Description

Marmot™ Description

Marmot™ is a cross-platform standards-compliant information management solution for keeping track of data. It is part of the GradeScan™ Suite.

Marmot™ Features

Data

Marmot stores data in one or more tree structures called burrows. Each element of data stored in a burrow is a resource. Resources of any type can be stored as children of any type. Marmot supports the following types of resources:

Electronic Business Card
Plain Text Note
Rich Text Note (currently rudimentary support)
Folder
Mentoring Activities
Image (coming soon)
Audio (coming soon)
Calendar (coming soon)

Cross-Platform

100% Java-based, Marmot works on any operating system for which J2SE 1.4 is available.
Marmot uses the operating system's file system, the ultimate cross-platform database.

Standards-Compliant

XML+RDF: Marmot views data through the eyes of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), and saves configuration and metadata information in RDF serialized in the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Unicode: Marmot stores notes in standard text files using the Unicode Standard encoded using the transformation format UTF-8.
vCard: Marmot stores contact information using the industry standard vCard electronic business card format for interchange with other applications and information managers.
XHTML: Marmot stores rich text notes using the XHTML vocabulary, the World Wide Web Consortium's latest recommendation for document markup on the World Wide Web.

Internationalized

Marmot can store data in virtually any language, and correctly renders most international scripts—even those with right-to-left writing direction. A few languages supported are:

Arabic
Hindi
Thai
(many more)