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Where do I find information on Open Directory (“dmoz”)?

April 26, 2017directory dmoz

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Where do I find information on Open Directory (“dmoz”)?

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Unfortunately, not here! Well, here’s a little… Start at http://www.dmoz.org/ for more information on the Open Directory. The Open Directory dataset is available as a (huge) RDF/XML dump. It describes thousands of Web sites using a mix of the Dublin Core metadata vocabulary and the DMoz taxonomy. See their RDF pages for more information, or odp-rdf-announce for updates relating to their exact data format. The ChefMoz site (collaborative restaurant guide) is also available in RDF. If you have problems with the DMoz and ChefMoz data, it’s best to contact those projects directly. But if you do something interesting with this content (eg. have Mozilla use it, eg. by loading chunks of it into a XUL UI from a remote site), don’t forget to let mozilla-rdf and the RDF Interest Group lists know. Those lists would probably also be interested in tools for cleaning / re-processing / storing the DMoz data too. See the sites using ODP data pages for some directories based on the ODP RDF dumps.