Title : Bookmark Saver

Author : Sharda Nandula

Abstract : Persistance of bookmarks at a centralized location for the purpose of remote availability and maintenance.

What :  The purpose of this project is to make available a centralized location(website), to persist the bookmarks for any registered user of the website. This will be useful for any one that uses more than one computer. Users can access the website from any computer and manage/access their bookmarks. That is, they can upload the bookmarks from the web browser of the current machine. Download bookmarks that were uploaded from some other machine etc. They will be able to manage the bookmarks on the website i.e. organize them, modify or delete bookmarks. Other features that could be implemented would be, Cross referencing between bookmark categories. For example, if we have a book mark that is related to Xerces parser, than it could belong to both an XML category and Java category. Users could search for bookmarks based on different criteria. Users could share their bookmarks with other users. Will have the ability to mark bookmarks private(other cannot see them) and public (o!
 thers can
access them).

Why : Currently there is no easy way to port the bookmarks from one machine to another. I was told about the del.icio.us website which does something similar by Bob Melvin. I would like to incorporate something similar, with some additions like private/public categories and cross-reference.

How : The basic functionality would include, ability to save bookmarks and manage them. I am planning to store the data as XML and use webservices to upload and download from and to a specified browsers, and render it using XSLT. 

The user would have to create an account on the website. Then we will be given access to add, delete, categorize his bookmarks. The first time the user logs in, the current bookmarks for the current browser will be automagically added to his repository and displayed to him in a tabular form, so that he can manage them. 

Thereafter a script will be run periodically (once a week) to update the repository with the new bookmarks. 

Questions :  Right now , none.