I misspoke. What I meant was the open source WiserEarth platform. The program(s) that ran the site. The backend rather than the frontend.
I did just find it on SourceForge,(I think, looks like?).
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wiserplatform/files/wiserplatform/
There are, I suppose, some parallels between my program, or indexing system and social bookmarking, but social bookmarking, in practice, requires, generally speaking, some proprietary methodology on some specific platform with an inaccessible database. Delicious has gone by the wayside somewhere after passing through different hands.
Along with it went 180 million bookmarks.
Presumably, that will happen sooner or later with every such proprietary service or "black box" type database on the internet.
What is needed IMO is an internet standard, similar to the Dewey Decimal System for books, in public libraries
What I've endevored to produce is something more along the lines of Ranganathan's "colon classification system".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification
Such a faceted metadata structure is compact, concise yet comprehensive, sufficiently flexible and extensible to encompass everything on the internet for the foreseeable future, yet structured enough to be computer readable. i.e. it can be easily and reliably isolated from whatever else appears in the source code of a website (using regular expressions).
Tom
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