The FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory is also a collaborative project, offering a web interface for users to enter and update entries".
[7] Among the critical issues of the previous version, it has been pointed out that while "available software is described using a variety of textual metadata, including the components upon which a particular piece of software depends", "unfortunately, those dependencies are only listed by name, and locating and retrieving them is left to the user".
[9] The code review from the directory's editorial board is suitable for obtaining statistics on subsets of free software packages reliably clustered by license.
[13] The new edition of the directory has been described as designed to ease and support with semantics the discovery and harvesting of information on free software programs.
"An extensive and flexible category system, plus over 40,000 keywords and more than 40 different fields of information, enhance both simple and advanced searching".