On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:39:55 +0200, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
1. Use one master format for every book. (There will be a small set of master formats to choose from.)
What would you suggest as at least part of that set? TEI? reStructuredText? or Z.M.L.? ;-) But generally speaking: yes, sounds good to me.
2. Minimize formatting. Make books that are usable across a wide variety of devices, not books that look exactly like the paper edition.
As long as it won't preclude others from doing that afterwards, sounds fine to me.
3. Use a resource control system (like git) for posting and maintenance. PG will host the master repository and the public can pull from it. A group of `committers´ can push. Every committer can have his own group of aides and pull from them.
Very sensible feature.
4. Use already scanned material: IA, Google, Gallica etc.
You probably mean: we're not going to spend time and energy on getting our own scans good, just jump through the hoops of IA and we're good.
5. Important works first. Don't bother with those embarrassing amateurish works DP turns out by the hundreds.
I would leave that up to the volunteers themselves. If anything, I tend to gravitate towards the obscure, because the 'important' works will be digitised anyway.
6. Accept unicode only.
But of course. 7. Make it really distributed in order to facilitate the various copyright regimes. Right now the DP versions for Canada and Europe are hopelessly out of sync software-wise with the main DP site. The latter also gets me back to scanning: I am not aware of repositories comparable to IA in 50+ and 70+ countries. I can see good reasons not to take that bit on as well, however. Regards, Walter