administering collections of internet links

[Matthew Dovey]

It maybe worth looking at Netscape's Compass, which is currently in
beta, which allows you to create a taxonomy of  subjects and even create
rules to automatically add web pages into the classification. Like all
of Netscape's products it is free for educational uses.

Matthew J. Dovey
Client-Server Development
Libraries Automation Service
Oxford University
65 St Giles
Oxford OX1 3LU
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1865 278272
Fax: +44 1865 278175
E-Mail: Matthew.Dovey at las.ox.ac.uk





> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Prentiss Riddle [SMTP:riddle at is.rice.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, October 10, 1997 6:13 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: administering collections of internet links
> 
> > From: "Elizabeth L. Blakely" <blakely1 at jeflin.tju.edu>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> > Subject: administering collections of internet links
> > 
> > Like many libraries we are creating a set of topically organized
> links to
> > Internet sites, a miniature "Yahoo" that provides annotated links
> selected
> > to support our user groups particular needs.  As our lists of sites
> grows
> > we find the overlap and time to edit hard-coded lists time consuming
> > hampering its growth and consistency.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> The software on which OMNI is based is called ROADS, and I believe a
> number of other projects use ROADS as well.  We're just getting
> started
> on a trial of it here at Rice.  For more info, see:
> 
> 	http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/
> 
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