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ibocator

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ibocator/

The earliest ancestor (2010, C++/Qt4), and the odd one out: not a tutorial catalog at all but a disk/volume cataloger in the spirit of CdCat — index the contents of offline media (CDs/DVDs/external drives) so their file trees stay searchable when the media isn't mounted. It began as an e-book locator ("book-locator" → "elocator" → "ibocator") before pivoting to CdCat cloning. It predates the whole TutCatalog line in both domain and data model, and nothing is ported from it — it is recorded here only as the origin of the cataloging itch.

File formats

  • XML catalog (.xml) — a single monolithic document describing catalogued volumes and their file trees. ibocator reads the CdCat XML format (libs/storage cdcatreader) and writes its own *.xml catalogs (MainWindow::saveFile, "Save Catalog"). There is no per-resource sidecar — one file holds the whole catalog.
  • Built on Qt4, GLib gio (filesystem access), boost, and googletest/googlemock.

What it did

Scan a mounted volume, record its directory tree into the catalog, then browse and search that tree later without the media present. A pure offline-media index — no metadata editing, no web scraping, no per-item rich fields.

Compared with rehuco

Different problem, so most rows are N/A rather than "planned later":

Capability ibocator rehuco
Domain Offline disk/volume contents Per-resource tutorials / reference images / assets
Data model One monolithic XML catalog One .rehu sidecar per resource + rebuildable .rehudb cache
Rich per-item metadata No Yes — typed field schema (LocalEdit2)
Search a cache when media is offline Yes (its whole point) Partial, differently framed — mounts may be offline (mounts & storage); the cache is rebuildable, not a hand-made index
Web scraping / metadata enrichment No Deferred (acquisition tooling)
Distribution / multi-node No The Swarm milestone

Can rehuco work for its data?

No, and by design it shouldn't. ibocator's XML catalog describes volumes and their file trees, not individually-described learning resources; rehuco's sidecar-per-resource model targets a different thing entirely. There is no meaningful import path and — per the standing decision — no code or format to carry over. It is a curiosity in the lineage, not a predecessor to migrate.