Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!newsfeeds.nerdc.ufl.edu!newsfeeds.nerdc.ufl.edu!news.magicnet.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-backup-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!209.90.0.8!alpha.sky.net!uunet!uunet!in4.uu.net!news.neta.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Hamilton Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: ROADS 2.00 - a free Yahoo-like system written in Perl Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 24 Sep 1998 14:30:36 GMT Organization: c/o Loughborough University, UK Lines: 49 Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <6udl2c$c29$1@news.neta.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com X-Trace: news.neta.com 906647436 12361 206.67.186.3 (24 Sep 1998 14:30:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@neta.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Sep 1998 14:30:36 GMT X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:142 comp.lang.perl.misc:38123 ROADS software version 2.00 --------------------------- WHAT IS THIS ? The ROADS software is a collection of tools which can be used in building on-line catalogues. Key features of the package are :- . Simple text based resource description format . World-Wide Web forms based resource description editor . WWW and WHOIS++ based search capability . Automatic generation of customised views of the catalogue, e.g. breakdowns by subject category . Automatic generation of listings of recently added resources . Dynamic browsing of resources in particular subject categories . Highly customizable HTML output . Distributed indexing and searching across multiple WHOIS++ servers using the Common Indexing Protocol (centroids) . Limited support for indexing and searching Harvest and Z39.50 servers . Tested for Year 2000 compliance according to the British Standards Institute's check list It also features a number of World-Wide Web based database administration tools, e.g. . Index maintenance . Removing/archiving old resource descriptions . Overall installation consistency checking . Resource description consistency checking . Review date checking . Checking for broken links (dangling URLs) . Checking for duplicate URLs . Checking for URL currency, e.g. records which have (or have not) been changed recently Most of these tools can be used independently of each other. You could choose, for example, not to support searching via WHOIS++ - or not to generate subject category breakdowns of your resource descriptions. However, all of the tools are written to manipulate their data in the IAFA template format, a popular way of writing simple Internet resource descriptions.