Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based Services

ROADS Software/Documentation

The ROADS software was a free Internet resource cataloguing system, written in Perl. It ran on any modern Unix-like operating system, such as Linux, and included advanced features for linking distributed cooperative databases together using the IETF's WHOIS++ search and retrieval protocol, and their Common Indexing Protocol (CIP).

ROADS was originally developed as part of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) by a consortium including the Institute of Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, and the UK Office of Library and Information Networking at the University of Bath.

The old ROADS project websites at UKOLN and the ILRT are still available.

(If you came here looking for the Information Roads Foundation, check out their website instead!)

These pages are no longer maintained