[vicsireland] Re: The Open Directory Project (ODP) another browseing experience
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:22:11 +0100
I need to amend one of the addresses I gave. the "open site" .org address
should be:
www.open-site.org/
- that hyphen is important.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:52 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] The Open Directory Project (ODP) another browseing
experience
The Open Directory Project (also known as the ODP) is an archive of the Web
edited by humans, in subject categories, rather in the manner of a library
catalogue of subjects. Its Web site is: www.dmoz.org/ It is closely
related to Wikipedia, and has a sister site at www.open-site.org/
and
a music version called "Open Music Project" at www.musicmoz.org >.
Now, while we have google and the like for horizontal Web searches: we now
have dmoz (Open Directory Project, Web site as above) for 'vertical
searches'. ODP consists of directories of general categories and within
them sub-directories which contain lists of sites with more specific
subjects. For example, you would find a list of 'international
broadcasters' a list of 55, under Radio, which in turn is one of the
subdirectories of Arts. (So far as I know, we are dealing with
English-language sites here.) You can also suggest (at a link provided on
the site)) an URL for them to add to the project. I think this a useful
site to know. Once again the URL is:
www.dmoz.org/
Happy Browsing!
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