Sebastien wrote:
Phony example:
John Smith writes an _Essay on the History of Rome_ This is PG text number 23456 page 123, footnote 4, he says: [...] see James King, _Study of ancient Greece_, page 456.
Now suppose that in a few years time 1/ this _Study of ancient Greece_ gets into PG, number 78967 (in the same edition John Smith used) 2/ some text-crawling program detects its fuzzy quotation in the Smith's essay 3/ some robot and/or human reworks Smith's essay to include hyperlinks to PG text 78967, at the correct page number (which would land at the right paragraph in the HTML) and checks them one by one
That would be a killer ultimate library!
Definitely! This example illustrates that as we begin considering how the PG collection can become more useful to more users in the future, PG will have to require the digital texts to be more carefully and strictly structured -- to meet a set of requirements. This is unavoidable -- it borders upon being a law of the universe. Jon Noring