On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:32 AM, John Vandenberg<jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Samuel
Klein<meta.sj(a)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.
<snip>
Not so. More printed works have been published in the last 70 years
than the whole of human history preceding them.
-Robert Rohde