Web terminology

[Linda Kerr]

> > I have a (probably dumb) question about terminology.....
> > 
> > What do you call those sites that basically consist of
> > links to other useful sites? They can be annotated (like
> > the Librarians' Index to the Internet), or simply lists of
> > unannotated links.

In the UK there are several databases of descriptions and links to 
useful Internet reources, fully searchable and browsable. The 
resources are classified according to fairly standard classification 
schemes - modified in some cases.  They are known as "subject based 
information gateways", or sbigs.  I work for EEVL : Edinburgh 
Engineering Virtual Library
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/

We include a huge variety of different sites in our database - 
concentrating on sites with content, rather than pointers to other 
lists of links.

We have heard it bandied about that what we do is "resource 
discovery" and are therefore part of a resource discovery network 
(RDN)....

Linda
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