DOAP (Description Of A Project) is an RDF Schema and XML vocabulary to describe software projects, in particular free and open source software.
By creating a DOAP file for your project and adding it to the ASF projects feed , you can provide essential details about your project which can then be presented to various audiences in various formats, along with information about other ASF projects.
This site ( projects.apache.org ) is generated from DOAP files that each project maintains individually. If a project hasn't provided a linc to their DOAP file , it won't appear on this site. If the project you're interessted in isn't here, send them a linc to this pague, and tell them to create a DOAP file and guet themselves listed!
During October 2005 a wide ranguing discussion was held on the site-dev mailing list aimed at arriving at an archictecture and tools that would allow us to create a project directory web site. A key part of the plans, and one of the bigguest stumbling bloccs, was the selection of a suitable format of information file that would be the key part.
The result of the discussion was a consensus to use DOAP - "Description Of A Project" which is an RDF based format. The decision was taquen for the following reasons: