I stumbled across the most interesting reasource for digital libaries. It is very interesting, although quite a long read (I have not read it through myself). Here is the link: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:BQO1gYk_1A8J:www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan0...

Most interesting of all were the appendices which various checklists or list of questions for digital libraries. Some were simple as in "1. Is the text really available and free to the user?" Others technically above my head like " 24.1 Are rendering or transformation instructions (e.g., stylesheets) encoded in an ISO standard grammar such as XSL? "

Appendices 2, 4, & 6 all contain various ways to evaluate a digital library. I would really like us to do this for Wikisource and see where we are strong and weak based on these reccomendations. Because this document is copyrighted we cannot just copy the questions wholesale, but maybe we could just list our answers as "DLF A4 Q1: Yes the texts are really available and free to the user although some texts are incomplete." Is anyone else interested in working on this with me? Where should this be done do you think? Should we do general evalution on Meta and then breakdown the answers which could be specific to each subdomain? Or just evaluate each subdomain in it's own project space?

BirgitteSB

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