Jared Buck wrote:
Prof. Hart and I have been talking about (by email) the possibility of reviving the old directory structure (ie etext 03, etext94, etc)
Revive it? It still seems to be alive. E.g., http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/ http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/ But I suppose these are unsatisfactory for your purposes because they're gradually dwindling, as their texts are (refurbished and) reposted under the new directory structure. Eventually, they'll be empty.
as perhaps a classic PG website or at least an alternative site for users to browse etexts the way they did before, with the etexts organized by year.
So: 1) Would this site exclude the post-10k texts (which never had a home in the old structure)? 2) Would it maintain separate copies of the texts, or merely simulate the old structure, providing hyperlinks into the new structure (or the new catalog) for the actual texts? 3) If it maintains separate copies, would it track changes to the corresponding texts in the new structure?
Prof. Hart also tells me there has been some discussion on this issue on the mailing list recently, but I only just joined the gutvol list a few days ago. Perhaps someone wouldn't mind filling me in on what I missed?
Hm. If he's thinking of the gutvol-d mailing list, and within the last few months, then the only thing I can find that's somewhat relevant is the discussion re Folio files. See the archives for December. (Click the link in the boilerplate at the bottom of the message.)
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