The World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW VL) was the first index of content on the World Wide Web and still operates as a directory of e-texts and information sources on the web.
The Virtual Library was started by Tim Berners-Lee creator of HTML and the World Wide Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva.[1] Unlike commercial index sites, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are experts. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "WWWVL", the "Virtual Library" or just "the VL".
The individual indexes, or virtual libraries live on hundreds of different servers around the world. A set of index pages linking these individual libraries is maintained at vlib.org,[2] in Geneva only a few kilometres from where the VL began life. A mirror of this index is kept at East Anglia in the United Kingdom.[3]
History
The Virtual Library was first conceived and run by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, and later expanded, organised and managed for several years by Arthur Secret as the "virtual librarian",[4] before it became a formally established association with Gerard Manning as its Council's first chairman.[5] The late Bertrand Ibrahim was a key contributor to the pre-association phase of the Virtual Library's development and then served as its Secretary until his untimely death in 2001 at the age of 46. A brief history, with links to archived pages and screenshots, is maintained on the Vlib website.[5]
While the Virtual Library as a collective of indexed sites and their maintainers has waned, many individual virtual library sites continue to be important and valuable academic resources.
^ ab"History of the Virtual Library". The WWW Virtual Library. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
^"WWW-VL History Central Catalogue". vlib.iue.it. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
^"About the WWW-VL History Central Catalogue". WWW-VL History Central Catalogue. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
^Karp, Cary (October–December 1999). "Setting root on the Internet: Establishing a network identity for the museum community". Museum International. UNESCO. 51 (4): 8–13. doi:10.1111/1468-0033.00223.
External links
The WWW Virtual Library website
March 04, 2023
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