Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote:

And it would be great to have the complete bibliographical record of the book (o books) used as source for the digital edition on every new text.

Or at least the date of original publication and the name of the original publisher. Not having those makes it difficult to cite the book in research work. I usually resort to going to the Library of Congress record to get that, and then include the fact that this is an on-line edition etc. etc. etc.

You give me a list of all publication dates and places etc. and I'll insert them into the database. If PG has all TP&Vs archived for copyright purposes, it should not be an impossible task. Adding database support for more attributes is a matter of a few hours. It just doens't make sense to add more attributes if nobody volunteers to fill them in. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org

I understand the need to conceal the date, publisher etc for most PG books. But I think an exception could be made if the book is over 100 years old. Books of this age are likely to be among the first published and hence have authenticity. Often the publisher has ceased publication, and in this case (as opposed to being bought out) there is no harm in listing the publisher. nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu Friar Wolcott, Gutenberg Abbey, Sherwood Forrest ----- Original Message ----- From: Gutenberg9443@aol.com To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:07 AM Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Indexing Editors, etc. In a message dated 9/19/2004 10:38:22 AM Mountain Standard Time, marevalo@marevalo.net writes: And it would be great to have the complete bibliographical record of the book (o books) used as source for the digital edition on every new text. Or at least the date of original publication and the name of the original publisher. Not having those makes it difficult to cite the book in research work. I usually resort to going to the Library of Congress record to get that, and then include the fact that this is an on-line edition etc. etc. etc. Anne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d