[Search-l] Fwd: more than just interoperability

[Chris]

Hi,

as the question of using ODP data came up above, allow me to post some 
links for background info on data use:

Overview article on data use in the volunteer community´s newsletter:
http://dmoz.org/newsletter/2006Spring/odp_data_use.html
Selected examples for use in Science:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/Open_Directory_Project/Research_Papers
Patents that quote ODP in 2006: http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=419 
<http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=419>

The more recent research papers and patents offer some insights how a 
modern search engine might profit from using ODP data, beyond the 
obvious (i.e. using it as seeding set, regular crawling or setting up a 
copy).

A bit more practical stuff:
Data dump: http://rdf.dmoz.org/
License: http://dmoz.org/license.html
Various tools for processing the dump: 
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/Open_Directory_Project/Use_of_ODP_Data/ 


Regards,
Chris
ODP volunteer admin chris2001 - http://dmoz.org/profiles/chris2001.html