Traditional Internet search services like AltaVista^TM and Yahoo!^® have been invaluable in helping sift through the ever-growing mass of online information - but they're too indiscriminate for many professional information users.

What's needed is a way of selecting, categorising, rating and cataloguing Internet information resources so users have access to an independent description and don't just have to rely on finding key words in the content.

Of course, it wouldn't help much if every Internet site went about this in its own way. Fortunately, there is now widespread international agreement on a Resource Description Framework (RDF) which everyone can use.

DESIRE provides the tools to build search services which incorporate resource selection, description and rating. You can build "Subject Gateways" - specialist libraries where all the content is guaranteed to be relevant to a particular subject like Art and Design, Business and Economics or Social Science - or simply enhance the quality of a general search engine.

DESIRE tools don't stop at finding web pages - they can help you find people too, through links to Internet directory services, and link to FTP archives and newsgroups.

For Internet information discovery tools DESIRE is your one-stop shop.