The Scout Report Signpost was a research project developed by the Internet Scout Project from 1996 to 2000 with funding from the National Science Foundation. The primary goal of the Scout Report Signpost was to demonstrate that Internet resources could be cataloged, classified, and arranged using existing controlled vocabularies and taxonomies such as the Library of Congress Classification Scheme and the Library of Congress Subject Headings in concert with the Dublin Core metadata standard. The Scout Report Signpost database contained exemplary Internet resources, as chosen by the editorial staff of the Scout Report. Signpost was designed to guide U.S. higher education to quality electronic resources. The majority of resources reviewed are free and freely accessible.
Signpost was supplanted and its mission continued by the Scout Report Archives.
