On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:04:22AM -0700, Michael Hart wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Wrote a page about linking policy.
Outstanding! Thanks very much!! See below for an addition:
That leaves us with the question of how to deal with the many "Project Gutenberg Multiplexer" sites that offer independent search facilities for PG books. Most of those do deep linking to the files.
Requiring them to link to the bibrec page would be pretty much counterintuitive because their reason of existence is to provide a search interface of their own.
Should we require them to prominently display a live link to our main page along with any search results?
I would not say "require," but "request." Or "suggest."
I think that would probably be acceptable to most.
Leave as many options open as possible.
Yes, I agree. But let's add a link to http://www.gutenberg.net/findalternate and a mention that people could use our own database to have correct & updated information about our eBooks. The RDF/XML catalog is a wonderful resource for such sites, but still new enough that most places probably don't know about it. ** In fact, let's run a little blurb in the upcoming newsletter: "Database available: Visit http://www.gutenberg.net/findalternate for the Project Gutenberg catalog database in XML format. This could be useful for people developing their own search interface to Project Gutenberg, or to people wishing to track all the latest files."