Details of the web sites addresses is given below. The UK web site provides access to an archive of postings to a mailing list. As it is different in character to the other NFP web sites it is not analysed further in this article. URL Naming As can be seen from Table 1 a variety of URL naming schemes are in use. Short URLs are desirable as they are easier to cite and to type.
Directory names are preferable than file extensions .
These simple guidelines should make NFP web sites more accessible. Of course these guidelines may conflict with local policies for hosting web sites, so they should be regarded as guideslines and not rules. A summary of the findings is given in the following table. Metadata Nos. of links. It was interesting to observe that only one instance of use of metadata was present in the NFP web site entry points.