Searching

This is an overview of materials related to distributed searching and indexing, one of the technical areas related to the web.

PICS

Platform for Internet Content Selection: a W3C activity to address the labelling of internet content for the purpose of child safety; our hope is that it is applicable to the general metadata problem: annotations, keywords, etc.

Catalogue searching

notes on PICS metadata infrastructure for resource description and catalogs

Distributed Indexing and Searching Workshop

May 96, Boston

Virtual Library

Subject catalog of the web, maintained by a distributed community of experts.