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In article <632@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com writes:

   Hmm. Looks like an automatic way of producing this stuff is an idea
   who's time has come. There are hundreds of people who announce materials 
   available for anonymous FTP. If there were an easy-to-use standard form for 
   them to fill out on-line, I'm sure sure it could be popularized quite
   quickly. 

I think that such a form would be quite useful; I know that it would
help me out a lot.  I wonder what all would be on it, though -- at
least all of the information that I'm gathering now, plus more if you
could stand it.  Suggestions and working code welcome.

You can't rely on volunteerism and self-cataloging to solve the entire
problem.  Existing projects which rely on self-cataloging and
self-description have miserable hit rates; for instance, the BBN /
NNSC Internet Resource Guide lists but 26 or so of the roughly 1000
archive sites on the internet.  Or look at the "original"
comp.archives; people were supposed to send in descriptions of their
stuff, and fill out a complicated database format.  They didn't.

-- 
Edward Vielmetti, moderator, comp.archives, 	emv@msen.com

"(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can
collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate
unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded
researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational
and training software; "
			"High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"