Back when we originally tried to get the locator going, I tried to
follow the format specified by the IAFA working group (Internet
Anonymous FTP archive). It had several classes of records that could
point to each other. Classes included organizations, people, software,
and documents.

Specifically, I was trying to follow the use of ALIWEB. This system
allowed people to leave a specially formatted file at a special URL on
their server. They then register this URL with the central service.
Once every so often the central service snarfs the files and rebuild the
index.

This lets people locally maintain their catalogs, rather than having to
revisit some remote site to do so.

In any event, I had documents that listed the classes of resources and
what attributes should be in each class. I had a taxonomy roughly based
on that used on the Python site. That is, when people classified their
software, the choices they could for the category were limited to a
small subset of keywords.

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