----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Starner" <shalesller@writeme.com>

"Joshua Hutchinson" writes:

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This sounds an awful lot like a Wikipedia entry. I think a loose 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.

But does every single book in the catalog deserve a Wikipedia entry? And a lot of details wanted are about the specific edition, when it was published and what not, that would never fit for a Wikipedia entry. That's a lot of short entries we'd be adding to Wikipedia.

I was thinking more of the summary/synopsis, author info, genre, etc. The stuff that everyone was saying we need in order to better use the collection. Author, publication date, etc belongs in MARC records or teiHeaders. As far as I know, neither really has a mechanism for holding things like a summary or review information (I suppose since TEI is XML based, that functionality could be added, but I don't think that is the proper place for it). Josh