I would like to find information on current and proposed attempts that
are being made to organize or catalog the Internet to improve
information access.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 16 Nov 2005 05:40 PST

dactyl-ga,

The future of the internet is being actively, explicitly designed by
the Internet2 consortium of researchers.  You can read about the
Internet2 project here:


http://www.internet2.edu/info/


Is this the sort of information you had in mind?

If not, please let us have a clearer idea of what you're looking for.

Cheers,

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by dactyl-ga on 16 Nov 2005 11:41 PST

Information about Internet2 would be great, but I'd also like
information written by somebody other than the people doing the
designing.  Are there any efforts besides Internet2?

There's these people collectively known as Google who have done quite a good job :)

Seriously, theres also the wayback machine, which archives a lot of
popular content..http://www.archive.org. I've used it a few times to
dig out content from defunct websites.

I know you said " but I'd also like information written by somebody
other than the people doing the designing" but what I think you're
after is something like http://www.w3.org/RDF/ or
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/ what this is the start of a standard for
people to write self describing content in other words you would have
tags (much like html) that would describe the context of the
information an example is here
http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/structure.example.txt and this is a page
evangelising it and explaining it