The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as Dmoz (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System), is a multilingual open content Open content, a neologism coined by analogy with "open source", describes any kind of creative work, or content, published in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or individual. Open content is an alternative paradigm to the use of copyright to directory A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links of World Wide Web The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, English physicist Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the links owned by Netscape Netscape Communications was a US computer services company, best known for its web browser. The browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. By the end of 2006, the usage share of Netscape browsers had fallen, from over 90% in the mid 1990s, to less than 1% that is constructed and maintained by a community A virtual community, e-community or online community is a group of people that primarily interact via communication media such as newsletters, telephone, email, internet social network service or instant messages rather than face to face, for social, professional, educational or other purposes. If the mechanism is a computer network, it is called of volunteer Volunteer and Volunteers redirect here. For other meanings of Volunteer, Volunteers, and Voluntary, see Volunteer editors.
ODP uses a hierarchical ontology In computer science and information science, an ontology is a formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the properties of that domain, and may be used to define the domain scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic are grouped into categories, which can then include smaller categories.
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