Organizing links pages

[Linda Woods Hyman]

At 11:13 AM 2/12/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Do you know of any better methods to organize these links which are
>>proliferating outside of our OPAC?  Is it possible to create metadata
>>records for these links, put them in a database and then still product an
>>html page which is easily browsable?

>This is exactly what we've done in the Webrary Links....
>After any changes, they click a button in the database to
>rebuild the page containing their changes; the result is a complete,
>formatted web page immediately available on the web server.  Our server is
>a Mac running WebStar, with Hypercard used for both the database and the
cgi >interface.

We created Blue Web'n (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn) in 1995
using a Hypercard stack to maintain and update links, as well as generate
the webpage.  It's been great. 



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Linda Woods Hyman
Pacific Bell Education First
(619) 237-2020
http://www.kn.pacbell.com
lhyman at mail.sdsu.edu