On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:01:57 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote: | |Dave: | |That's exactly the point. We couldn't expect anyone |to do that. Other than having a miraculous grant from |somewhere to hire a professional librarian for a couple |of years. :) | |However, variations on what are sometimes called |"Social tagging" schemes might be workable in |our case. | |This may lack the precision of traditional library cataloging, |but it is much better than nothing, has flexibility to reflect |the aspects that volunteers are interested in, and can be |easily contributed to by many people. | |Simply making lists, as I mentioned earlier, does not fulfill |my vision of the full potential, but perhaps is a place to |start for now. | |Andrew | |On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Dave Fawthrop wrote: | |> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:49:55 -0700, "Jared Buck" <JBuck814366460@aol.com> |> wrote: |> |> |Hey, would there be any way we could be able to create a system for |> |searching by subject matter for books? I have a mind to create a CD of |> |books about and by native american indians for a girl i really like and |> |the search mechanism is just not robust enough, searching full text |> |takes too much time either. Being able to enter a single term under |> |subject should be able to bring up a whole list of books related to that |> |subject matter. Like, searching for science fiction should bring up a |> |list of books that ARE science fiction, not just books with the words |> |"science fiction" in the title or in the text. |> |> Are you volunteering to read and categorise all 18,000 books, then write |> the program? PG has IIRC 1 1/2 paid employees, and our founder works for free, when he could be employed as a full Professor at some university. Would you be willing to put PG's finances on a ?proper? footing, otherwise everything is up to volunteers, who are our greatest asset :-) -- Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk>