Jon: One point to take into account is that the upcoming wiki catgorizing will be flexible, never "finished", changing as needed. Embedding this in the files would take a much larger amount of effort, and remove much of the possibility for collaberative effort. Andrew On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jon Noring wrote:
Actually, I think what we'd like to do is to "categorize" the texts using one or more categorical systems, and then embed that information right into the book (which is a digital object).
This is essentially adding metadata, or what the Yahoo folk call "microformats" (which is a terrible name), right into the object. This is done now in many kinds of digital objects, such as audio, video and some ebook formats.
This way no external categorization need to be applied -- it is all recorded internally, meaning each book can become autonomous of the others since it carries its own metadata. Particular "libraries" can build a lookup table of their choosing by simply sniffing through all the texts it holds. It doesn't really matter where the text files are placed or organized in a file structure. Multiple categorization systems can be supported in parallel provided the texts carry the requisite information.