The W3C Virtual Library

Provider: WorldWide Web Consortium
Browsable index: Yes
Search capabilities: Yes, on the home page under "Index"
Item submission method: Human.
Editorial function: Yes
Annotated: Yes, by the submitter
FAQ: No

The Virtual Library, provided by the WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C), offers a catalog of hundreds of subjects. A unique aspect of this catalog is that each subject is kept current by an individual, called a "maintainer". Each maintainter helps assure a specific section of the catalog is up-to-date and useful, providing an additional level of human intervention. The Virtual Library is also experimenting with a Library of Congress subject catalog, which should please the librarians. A catalog of 10 popular subject fields is provided, based on the number of links to those resources from other Internet sites. Resources are sparsely annotated by the site's submitter.

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