BioWurld: History
Before (1994-1999): Biowurld is a list of links related to bioinformatics and molecular biology. Users can add to the list.
Issues:
- outdated links
- inappropiate links
- not structured enough
- (flat text data)
With the move from the old webserver to a new cluster it was decided to revamp BioWurld.
Although in the beginning the issues mentioned above were not very important, they became more and more an eye-sore as the web matured and the need for quality information arose.
Nowadays users become irritated after one or two broken links - in the beginning of the web this was all part of the experience. The upraise of ‘spammers’ (in whatever form) also neccesitated some form of control over which resources enter a database. Furthermore, searching for a resource is often not enough anymore (lots of hits): a need grows to have a browsable directory of categorised resources.