Hello. The WWW Virtual Library (http://vlib.org/) is a distributed responsibility Web index of 288 separate sites linked to a central catalog spanning a huge range of topics, academic and not. It was actually started by Tim Berners-Lee himself and was once partly served from the W3C. It's been around since 1991 and has all sorts of different individual sites: some static HTML, some - much fewer - databases such as Links2, etc. We would like to implement a search engine that gets all of the HTML and text files on all 288 sites, tens of thousands of documents. There is little hope that in the near future the sites will be unified around one format, and this may not be desirable for us anyway, since each site serves a core of specialists with differing needs; however, we'd like to put in place at least a broad, top-level search engine that gets the user to the right page of links in the right site. We'd like to know whether you think ht://Dig would be a good solution for us. Any and all comments would be very much appreciated. Thanks! Gabriel -- Gabriel Fenteany, Ph.D. Maintainer, WWW Virtual Library: Cell Biology ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the single word "unsubscribe" in the SUBJECT of the message.
