Webliographer

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Webliographer is a URL database. I started developing it in fall of 1996 in reaction to noticing that my personal web page was primarily a list of links and that maintaining it in HTML was cumbersome and error-prone. Web browser bookmarks are convenient, but still difficult to search and typically sequestered on one computer. My original vision of Webliographer was as a Mini-Yahoo--a set of approved links organized by topic.

Having students use search engines is frustrating, especially middle school students who don't read very fast. Even with the power of Google (which we didn't have when Webliograper was conceived) finding age-appropriate links for kids is difficult. Webliographer makes it easy to make a set of known-good links available to students in just a click or two.

Webliographer hasn't seen active development since the Fall of 1999. Still, it's in active use by several schools, professors, and individuals who find it a convenient way to orgnize web resources for their students, classes, or personal use.

Webliographer is Open Source Software and is available at webliographer.com.
Some good examples of Webliographer in use are

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