ETB Thesaurus
http://www.en.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/etb/content.cfm?lang=en&ov=7208
The European Treasury Browser (ETB) Project has recently released a multilingual thesaurus available in eight languages: Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. The thesaurus is "aimed at indexing educational resources" and building an "interoperable infrastructure to exchange and network metadata on educational resources for schools in Europe." The project seeks to add value to national resource collections by allowing teachers and students to locate Europe resources. The thesaurus gives users access to all resources, regardless of the indexing method used. Users have a choice of downloading the thesaurus between three different displays -- alphabetical, rotated, or systematic. Potential users of the ETB thesaurus are indexers working in education documentation services, publishers, libraries, teachers, students, administrators, scholars, and researchers. Interested users may find downloading the thesaurus a bit difficult; the first download yields a URL from which users can download the actual file. [MG]
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GNU wget
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
GNU Wget is a free software package that allows users to retrieve files using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP, the most widely used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool; therefore, it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, and terminals without Xsupport. Some of its many features include resuming aborted downloads using REST and RANGE, using filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories, converting absolute links in downloaded documents to relative so downloaded documents can link to each other locally, and using local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be redownloaded when mirroring. This software runs on most UNIX-like operating systems, as well as Microsoft Windows. [MG]
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