On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Michael Dyck wrote:
Michael Hart wrote:
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Her Serene Highness [Michele Dyck?] wrote:
"Her Serene Highness" is Michele, but given her email address, I doubt her last name is Dyck. Mine is, though.
OK, then I'm still a little in the dark, as we have one other "Her Serene Highess" who has contributed as well. . . .
Michael Hart:
... I didn't want to provide a different Project Gutenberg eBook for each and every single paper edition out there, and then have to keep canonical errors [sic] in them for all time.
You say "didn't". Do you still feel this way?
Eventually, when OCR is about as good as xeroxing, then it shouldn't be much effort to scan multiple editions. See previous note w/ xerox in header.
I wanted to created a "critical edition" that combined corrections and items from various editions,
I'm curious: How many such amalgams has PG produced? What was the latest?
Couldn't tell you, but every time a new proofer sends in errors, it's more likely some were researched from a different edition.
and we have always supplied the necessary information for citing our eBooks on request,
But that's not apparent to someone reading a PG eBook, I think. E.g., the PG boilerplate doesn't have a sentence like: To find out what printed edition(s) this eBook was created from, send a request to someone@pglaf.org.
Usually they just send an email asking how to cite, and I send: Bibliographic information comes from any full record displayed by either: the Project Gutenberg Search Engine (http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi) Project Gutenberg Catalog Browser (http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/cat.cgi). For an example, if you use Canterbury Tales from our collection, you'll get the following card information: AUTHOR: Chaucer, Geoffrey, circa 1340-1400 AKA: ADD. AUTHOR: Purves, D. Laing, Editor -- TITLE: Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems SUBJECT: LOC CLASS: PR -- NOTES: LANGUAGE: English - DOWNLOAD: cbtls10.txt - 1.62 MB cbtls10.zip - 641 KB Chaucer, Geoffrey, circa 1340-1400. - 2000. - Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems - Urbana, Illinois (USA): Project Gutenberg. Etext #2383. - First Release: Nov 2000 - ID:2862 Where the last three lines should be your bibiliographic information. Hope this helps, So nice to hear from you!! Michael S. Hart <hart@pobox.com> Project Gutenberg "*Ask Dr. Internet*" Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*"