[Wikipedia-l] Wikicite project pages (english versions only so far)

[Ray Saintonge]

Stirling Newberry wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
>
>> Sj wrote (about Wikicite):
>>
>>> I was wary of this idea at first, but after talking to Stirling about
>>> it last week, I am very enthusiastic.  Two librarians I have talked to
>>> in Boston seem to think it's a good idea, also.
>>
>> As in "if you cook, we will eat", or the other way around?
>>
>> Stirling Newbury wrote:
>>
>>>> together in a live manner, which allows for the creation of
>>>> bibliographic apparatus. The Library of Congress is working on such a
>>>> project for its purposes, it is the purpose of this project to create
>>>> an open wiki system which will allow:
>>>
>> Who are these people at LoC?  Does their project have a name?
>
> Bibliographic enhancement, there is a link on the page.
>
>> I think the best way is to digitize every book and give each page a
>> URL, like this, http://runeberg.org/pictswed/0219.html
>
> Where the material is in Wikisource this is great, but you still need 
> the card for context and references.
>
>> We already know how to handle URLs, and it's only a matter of time
>> until we have scanned every book and newspaper there is.  I would
>> guess the task will be completed within the next 50 years.  Most of us
>> will be around to see it.
>>
>> So, I have a proposed solution and a time table.  What's your time
>> table?
>
> Links to sources don't create citation indexes, they don't make citing 
> easier and they don't allow us to annotate sources - it also assumes 
> that a great deal of material will be released into the public domain 
> that is not currently. I feel that we can have a first pass wikicite 
> ready to be used in wikipedia and wikitionary articles within a year 
> based on ISBN numbers for books and ISSN numbers for journals.

ISBNs are of limited value since they were only adopted in 1970.  Most 
of that material is still copyright protected.  The public domain 
material on Wikisource is much older than that, and has no ISBNs.

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