On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:19:13PM -0600, John Hagerson wrote:
Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
Whether the link back to DP would be useful or not I leave to others to decide. However, when we get to the point ... someday ... of providing the original page scans (for those that we can), I wouldn't be surprised to see the projectID used as the value to tie back to them. So, let's put the projectID in there for now. It definitely doesn't hurt anything.
While it won't hurt anything, a DP ID might not have any significance for linking to page scans. DP periodically archives finished projects and takes them off line. If we would need to bring scans back on line, it would make more sense to me to restore them to a directory named with the PG eBook number and not the hexadecimal alphabet soup ID that DP uses.
I have posted, I think, three books with their page scans already, which I could do because I was working directly with the producer. We have a provisional protocol for this, which is to put them into 12345/page-images/12345-page-images.zip. You can see http://gutenberg.net/faq/S-21 for more detail. This protocol may, and probably will, evolve as we get more cases. Speaking for myself, I'd like to see more cases (though not an inundation! :-) fairly soon. So if you're producing a book now, whether from DP or elsewhere, and you are free to submit the images, let me know. The page images, where posted, should definitely be stored in the PG archive rather than linked-to; otherwise they won't get mirrored. jim