This is what the Web lacks. Efforts to provide index access to text descriptions of sites and their offerings is ever falling behind the contents online. This message intends to discuss some much more advanced approaches, attempting to enlist the support of the research community itself to explore what can be done. First, the Web as a structure seems to embody many of the properties of a Semantic Network, as long used in the computational linguistics field. Many properties of the Web are similar to those of semantic nets and hence many of the procedures applied in computational linguistics to semantic networks might be applicable to the Web itself.
Some differences do exist.
An exploration of what such arc labels might be would be worthwhile and how they could be placed into an expanded protocol for this would be worthwhile. Minimally, for example, arcs ought to indicate the type of information at the node, such as the medium. Maximally, they should deal with the semantic relationship of the information to the current node. In computational linguistics the relationships between nodes relate to linguistic properties of events and entities. On the Web these are at present just an atypical subset of the set of relationships between nodes.