Hi Steve. The problem with this proposition is that at the time a whitewasher is working on the final posting of a text, there is no catalog record to edit yet. New records are only generated once a day, when the directories are automatcally scanned to find any new files. Also, I do have the impression that the whitewashers would rather not deal with cataloging issues. (where a small change can suddenly require further following up in order to keep the catalog somewhat consistent, deal with further issues, etc.) As the closest thing we have to a "Catalog content supervisor" I will volunteer to work with additional information if we can find some way to get it to me--preferrably via catalog[at]pglaf.org--from the people producing the texts. And I must add here that simply having a tei template in place will not remove the advisability of still manually looking through every record. With the amount of less-than-ideal modifications that can creep in when just dealing with a Title and Author, I can only think I would see more if more fields are included. Andrew On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Steve Thomas wrote:
The central problem, if I've understood all the posts, is that the catalog entry is generated from the final header, which as we all know omits lots of detail which the volunteers have.
Would it be possible to add manual cataloguing to the posting workflow? By which I mean, when a person (whitewasher?) posts a new text, they also edit the catalog to add whatever level of detail for the work is to hand.
I understand that we don't want to add to the whitewasher's workload, but -- thanks to Marcello's web interface -- it is really quite easy to add to a catalog entry, so probably not a great deal of work in comparison to the work they already do.
Of course, once all the TEI stuff is in place, this won't be necessary, but in the meantime ...
Steve