Information gateways: collaboration on content

Information gateways provide targeted discovery services for their users, giving access to Web resources selected according to quality and subject coverage criteria. Information gateways recognise that they must collaborate on a wide range of issues relating to content to ensure continued success. This report is informed by discussion of content activities at the 1999 Imesh Workshop. The author considers the implications for subject based gateways of co‐operation regarding coverage policy, creation of metadata, and provision of searching and browsing across services. Other possibilities for co‐operation include working more closely with information providers, and disclosure of information in joint metadata registries.