ODP Equivalents WRT Stature

are there any?

[ukgimp]

It appears that there is no doubt that Google place a high emphasis on a listing form the ODP. Are there any other sources that are given similar credit?

The reason I ask is I was talking to a representative of the Resource Discovery Network [rdn.ac.uk], which is a long term UK academic program that classifies web resources. Every record/website is manually checked through many levels and catalogued accordingly by a subject specific librarian. This has to be considered a quality resource even though its size is not really comparable to the ODP?

Similarly and to an extent Zeal?

Comments?

Cheers

[vitaplease]

ukgimp,

DMOZ's importance is mainly due to the generally high Pagerank the categroies can have and the fact that you can get in for free.

I thought remembering Googleguy saying somewhere that DMOZ does not get any preferential importance.

Another question is if a DMOZ link is counted twice as a back-link. Once from DMOZ and once from the Google directory.

Thanks for suggesting the RDN, will have a look at that.