The Interpedia was an idea ahead of its time. The subject of intense discussions in a high-volume mailing list from almost a decade ago, it included some great ideas such as the SoAP or Seal Of Approval mechanism that should be implemented -- it is badly needed on the web today. The implementation of the software side of the Interpedia is the goal of InterpediaSoftware.Org and this mailing list.

The Interpedia Project proposed an encyclopedia-like interface to the whole of the Internet, including not only pages of hypertext but all ongoing activities on the net, such as discussions on mailing lists and real time chat.
InterpediaSoftware.Org will collect what little implementation work has already been done and either finish it or redesign it and start again.

Please follow the links on the InterpediaSoftware.Org home page at www.InterpediaSoftware.Org to the few Interpedia-related pages that exist elsewhere on the web, and watch this space for new developments.

See also the newsgroup comp.infosystems.interpedia created years ago as a locus for Interpedia discussions.

This mailing list is mostly to support the development of free open-source Intepedia software, but will include discussions of software requirements that anyone can participate in, even if they are not programmers. It is also for the discussion of Interpedia theory and underlying mathematics, which will be discussed informally in English, with more formal or advanced mathematics taken elsewhere.

Wanted: Interpedia Mailing List archives from the old Interpedia mailing list of 1993 -- does anybody have the complete archives? Please contact Douglas P. Wilson at dp-wilson@shaw.ca if you have any archived Interpedia messages at all, though of course we hope to someone has the complete collection.









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