On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:32 AM, John Vandenbergjayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Also... *A wiki for book metadata, with an entry for every published work, statistics about its use and siblings, and discussion about its usefulness as a citation (a collaboration with OpenLibrary, merging WikiCite ideas)
Why not just do this in the Wikisource project?
99% percent of "every published work" are free/libre. Only the last 70 years worth of texts are restricted by copyright, so it doesnt make sense to build a different project for those works.
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Not so. More printed works have been published in the last 70 years than the whole of human history preceding them.
-Robert Rohde