administering collections of internet links

[Jon Knight]

On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Elizabeth L. Blakely wrote:
> I know about the OMNI project which provides an administrative
> gateway/database.  Does anyone have any experience with OMNI or know of
> any such tools they can recommend or warn me about.  OMNI's address is
> omni.ac.uk.

Well I don't know whether I can "recommend" as its a bit of the usual
highly frowned upon self-promotion but OMNI use our ROADS toolkit.  ROADS
provides a WHOIS++ server, web based search front end, browsable lists
based on subject descriptors, template editor and adminsitration module. 
ROADS was developed as part of the UK's eLib Programme (see
<URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/elib/>.  For more information on ROADS see
<URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/>. 

The current stable release of ROADS is available from
<URL:ftp://ftp.roads.lut.ac.uk/pub/ROADS/roads-v1.00.tar.Z>.  It is mainly
written in Perl and requires a UNIX box (PC running Linux is fine), a web
server that supports CGI scripts and Perl 5.002 or later.  For link
checking you need the LWP Perl module.

Tatty bye,

Jim'll

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