Somewhat ironically/fitting one of the triggers for this idea was my dislike for the amount of corporate/institutional "spam" on dmoz.org. Browsing dmoz today it doesn't feel like browsing a treasure chest of information; it feels like browsing one of those vanity contact books that people are scammed into paying for placement in.
Just because 50 different museums from around the world are super reputable (to someone) that doesn't mean they should have a guaranteed place in the "art" category, for instance. They should need to have a kickass art collection online with great UX, super-highres images, easily downloadable if it's stuff that's out of copyright and so on. Just list the best ten (twenty? thirty? no idea what the right number is. it probably depends on the category) things, not every single art institution on earth that someone has bothered to submit.
I guess I would summarize this as opinionated, content quality-based selection.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13802555
Somewhat ironically/fitting one of the triggers for this idea was my dislike for the amount of corporate/institutional "spam" on dmoz.org. Browsing dmoz today it doesn't feel like browsing a treasure chest of information; it feels like browsing one of those vanity contact books that people are scammed into paying for placement in.
Just because 50 different museums from around the world are super reputable (to someone) that doesn't mean they should have a guaranteed place in the "art" category, for instance. They should need to have a kickass art collection online with great UX, super-highres images, easily downloadable if it's stuff that's out of copyright and so on. Just list the best ten (twenty? thirty? no idea what the right number is. it probably depends on the category) things, not every single art institution on earth that someone has bothered to submit.
I guess I would summarize this as opinionated, content quality-based selection.