OPML and directories. The challenge: Put all that we know on the Internet and give people the tools to present it in a myriad of ways. Let a thousand flowers bloom. No one owns the keys to knowledge. That's Jeffersonian software. The Web, of course, was modeled after the printed page, with all its limits. This new Web is modeled after the mind of man.[Scripting News]

Using OPML for directories really makes a lot of sense.  It allows for the inclusion of directories in directories and other re-use of the information.   Imagine if each academic law library took a subject area of the law and created a directory of resources on that area and the directory uses OPML.  That would make it possible for others to aggregate directories, to draw on the collected knowledge of the librarians. Directory aggregators would be as useful as news aggregators.

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