Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN)
http://www.isen.org/

The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) is for researchers who find it difficult to locate and search relevant, evaluated online databases. The ISEN is the foundation of a portal that comprehensively catalogs the Internet’s databases. Unlike Yahoo or Google and other portals that keyword index a portion of constantly changing web sites, ISEN focuses on the niche of cataloging databases. ISEN facilitates access and adds value by creating more effective and efficient Internet search experiences. ISEN is the foundation of a marketplace for information owners and vendors who desire more exposure of their information product to a broader range of Internet researchers. ISEN provides an auditing tool for organizations and individuals to find refined and structured resources that have been obscured by the rapid and overwhelming growth of web pages. ISEN provides a new proposed library standard for organizing databases that is historically overdue. The Internet Search Environment (ISE) is the primary concept behind the Internet Search Environment Number or ISEN. An ISE is a container of structured information that has its own search algorithm. Each database, search engine, knowledge base, digital library, institutional repository, OPAC & P2P environment and other types of search environments that currently exist or may exist in the future would be assigned an ISEN and be cataloged using taxonomic and folksonomic tags or metadata. The ISE is the number of these search environments that exist. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.