DESIRE Toolkit components2.1 ROADSDescriptionROADS is a system which stores metadata describing information resources in the form of IAFA templates. Resource descriptions can be searched via locally-generated Web pages, or remotely using the whois++ protocol. Resource descriptions can be amalgamated and exchanged with other retrieval systems in the form of centroids or using the Common Indexing Protocol. ROADS is particularly suited to the construction of manually-maintained catalogues of information resources which require a consistent approach to categorisation or rating. ROADS is commonly used to build Subject-Based Information Gateways.
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