Those of you who have the HotSauce plugin installed for your Web browser
may like to 'fly-thru' a 3D representation of the eLib Project space at
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ROADS/MCF/elib.mcf
Some background...
The Meta Content Framework (MCF) provides a system for representing a wide
range of information about content. The content targeted includes web
pages, gopher and ftp files, desktop files, email and structured (i.e.,
relational and object oriented) databases, etc.
HotSauce (TM) is a technology demonstration based on MCF. The HotSauce Web
browser plug-in allows you to fly through 3D representations of Web space.
More information about MCF and HotSauce is available from
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/mcf.html
The HotSauce plugin can be downloaded from
http://mcf.research.apple.com/gindex.html
The MCF files for the eLib Project fly-thru are generated automatically
from the eLib Projects ROADS database at
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ROADS-ELIB/elib-search.html
and a robot generated ROADS database containing descriptions of
approximately 1500 eLib project Web pages.
(Health warning: both the ROADS databases and the MCF files are still
under construction at this time!).
Andy.
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University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK Voice: +44 1225 323933
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~lisap/ Fax: +44 1225 826838
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