This sounds an awful lot like a Wikipedia entry. I think a loose
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Joshua Hutchinson wrote: partnership between us and wikipedia would be useful here. We have the book and a link could be made from the catalog page to that books entry in Wikipedia. Then, we have a place to put all sorts of information about the book, the author, where it was published, the historical context it was conceived in, ... just about anything someone wants to add. Yes, I think that in some ways Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia can complement each other very well. As I see it, PG is about preserving the original content of the printed material, and Wikipedia appears to be an ideal place for all that extra information that we may have. As someone (I believe Carlo) has mentioned, very often the people involved in the scanning and digitizing of texts have more knowlege about the author, the text itself, etc., which could be passed on to either the PG online catalog or Wikipedia, as appropriate. In the last few months, I have added countless links between Wikipedia and the PG online catalog, sometimes creating new Wikipedia articles for authors I think worthy of mention. However, it's still only a small portion of what could be done. Anyone else interested? Andrew