"Lynne" == Lynne Anne Rhodes <lynne@rhodesresearch.biz> writes:
Lynne> I, and I am sure many others would love to see a bit more Lynne> detail such as the original date of publication and a brief Lynne> synopsis of the work. Obviously to enter such information Lynne> day after day with such a rush of material is far beyond Lynne> the resources of a small group of volunteers, however, Lynne> dedicated. DP would be delighted of preserving these data. Most books that pass through DP are accompanied by a small html page that describes the author, the book, etc; and the data on the original book are preserved in proofreading, and often deleted in post-processing. We have also discussed keeping a catalogue of our books, with this kind of additional information. One of the problems is copyright: most of the info on the author are taken from sources that could not resist a clearance procedure (i.e. are raided from other sites). So this cannot be integrate with the PG catalogue; but might build the core of an added-value site that maintains a PG catalogue adding information and classification data. The PG catalogue remains authoritative and terse, but you can get additional features. Exactly as with many etexts, for which sites exist that add formats for PG ebooks. The first step however is to have better PG records, and a method to avoid losing information from DP to the PG catalogue. Carlo