Andrew wrote:
Personally, I don't have a problem with linking to page scans as you mention, and I don't belive that it would be too hard to implement. Although the actual time to physically enter links could be a consideration.
One of the concerns I have for the PG catalog is that it be valid over the longer term (decades) without requiring a great deal of upkeep of external links.
I could easily imagine including links of many different types (as some would like) only to find in a few years that some material has been moved, some has disappeared, etc.
I appreciate this feedback. Your reply strongly indicates that any online archive of page scans which is linked to the associated digital texts needs to carefully consider the long-term stability of links in both directions (we are assuming the scans are kept separate from the digital text archives), and to make it easier to change the link addresses should URL changes become unavoidable. Any ideas, anyone? In reply to Robert Cicconetti, who wrote: "However, the squirrels are even busier than usual; this is not a good time to ask for a dump of the [DP] project archives." That is my sense, too, and my involvement with DP has not been that deep other than the submission of the Kama Sutra scans a couple months ago, just before the change in the DP system occured. This change of the DP system has certainly kept a lot of the DP regulars busier than usual. Hopefully normalcy will return soon, if it hasn't already. Jon