- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:51:50 -0400 (EDT)
- To: sw99@w3.org
Don't know if this would be of interest, but the World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW VL, http://vlib.org/) is currently stuck for somewhere to host their search engine. I've offered some space/resources in Bristol, but it occurs to me that WWW VL might be an interesting testbed for Semantic Web stuff, although the W3C-WWWVL connection was broken a few years back (not sure of details). The VL is still pretty interesting. Not as dynamic as Open Directory, about.com etc nor as library-like as CORC and the Subject Gateway catalogues, but nevertheless an interesting example of a not-for-profit distributed internet catalogue. Just a thought... Dan CONTEXT: from http://vlib.org/AboutVL.html The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web
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