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Cataloging and Other Web Analysis Software

Cataloging

Now that we have explored a complex array of approaches to management of Web-based documents, what software is available to assist in the management of these documents?

There are many and no list can be exhaustive. The necessary WARNING is that these software solutions are in flux and the end user -- you -- are in the final analysis the only who can be responsible for insuring that you are exploring the most recent and most current resource.

That various software packages are discussed here is IN NO WAY an endorsement of any or all of them.

That said, consider:

Library of Congress

Z39.50 Register of Implementors -- Entries Available: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/register/entries.html

ROADS (Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based services)

ROADS [1] is a UKOLN perl-based product that runs in a UNIX environment. It is designed to build subject based Web gateway sites. It is also an effort to develop standards and to support research into the development of Web protocols and information retrieval tools.

ROADS provides a list of those using the software. This can be found at http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/who/

ROADS is available free from http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/

MARCit

MARCit is described as a semi-automated tool to catalog the Internet in MARC. Marketing stuff at: http://www.marcit.com/

OCLC Products

SiteSearch is designed to integrate electronic records within the library OPAC. It runs in the WWW environment.

Mantis is a generalized metadata tool designed for the low end end user. It is an RDF based, XML template tool designed to interface with SiteSearch. For additional description, see Keith Shafer, Mantis, A Flexible Cataloging Toolkit dated October 22, 1998. Available: http://orc.rsch.oclc.org:6464/toolkit.html

Other Web Analysis Software

Page References

[1] What is ROADS, Available: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/what/