[WEB4LIB] Open Source Directories

[Robert J. Tiess]

As one of the many editors at The Open Directory Project,
I know it's a great atmosphere to work in, if you don't
mind innovative approaches to classification and
differing opinions among editors sharing categories.
As an editor, you're given your own profiles page. Mine
is http://www.dmoz.com/profiles/mindfire.html

Another directory of possible interest here is The New
Athenaeum, a metaguide to topical web guides created
within the library community.  This is an ongoing
project of mine:  http://members.spree.com/athenaeum
Guide submissions are welcome all year round.

Robert T.
rjtiess at warwick.net
http://members.tripod.com/~rtiess

Sarah Jones wrote:
> 
> Actually, there's already an open source directory in the works at
> http://dmoz.org/  This is the Open Directory Project, formerly
> NewHoo and then bought by Netscape back in November and
> folded into mozilla.org.
> 
> It started last June as GnuHoo, is non-commercial, and currently
> has 7783 volunteer editors and 382,155 listings. Although the basic
> directory structure was started by the originators, the development
> and organization of the structure is an on-going collaborative effort
> of those volunteer editors. Personally, I am finding it a fascinating
> project to watch, as interested and even empassioned internet
> users work to create a user-centered public resource and behind-
> the-scenes editors' tools. For an article on the project, here's a link
> to a San Jose Mercury News piece:
> http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg020799.h
> tm
> 
> --Sarah