A listing of potential projects for ISDA student employees or any student within MIT (with support from ISDA)

MIT Tag (bookmarks) Cloud Service

Provide a MIT wide tag cloud service (like Delicious) with the following functionality (note: this is an initial list of functional requirements). Ideally, Scuttle could be used (with enhancements)

• Support for multiple browsers (IE7, Firefox, Safari at a min)
• API for integration into department or enterprise apps/products so we have one place to track all tags (ie IS&T wiki service would use this service as the tagging engine instead of its own)
• Integration with external tag service (Delicious, Magnolia etc) so we can browse all our tags from one view.
• Support MITs authentication (MIT Touchstone) service. Allow for public and private tags
• Offline capability (use OpenLaszlo's Webtop or Adobe AIR or MS' Silverlight or Google Gears)
• Rating capability

REST interfaces to access the Data Warehouse

• Build a few REST interfaces for the DW. We are getting access requests for non-ODBC  connections to the DW so that DLCs can integrate data from the DW with their local apps.
• Will need to analyze what kinds of changes will be required (infrastructure, policies and data access mechanisms
  

SIP Applications

• Use the IS&T "Personal SIP Service" to build new apps
• Some ideas: an applet for "Click to Dial" that can be used by any web app
• Integration of our SIP service with mitChat (our XMPP based IM service). mitChat is based on Jive Software's OpenFire product. They have existing clients that do support SIP and Jingle