On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 04:38:18PM -0800, D. Starner wrote:

There are three books just added to the database that were scanned by me: Essay on Wit, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, and An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste. None of them have all the people listed on the title page included in the index. Why? At least in the case of Sigurd, the missing people rewrote a significant part of the text.

Sorry about that, David. The reason is that the automatic cataloging program only picks up the metadata in the book header like Author:, Title:, etc. Email corrections (be specific, please!) to catalog@pglaf.org and we'll fix 'em (we=Andrew or I). You might also check whether the listing in GUTINDEX.ALL is correct for these entries. -- Greg

Hi David. I've just spent some time comparing and looking up names etc. and adding into the catalog extra information for the three titles you mention here. I could see problems with trying to automate this as it was not neccessarily straight-forward situation. I did make a judgement call in some cases. For instance, recording someone who wrote an introduction as a "contributor". Take a look and let me know what you think... On another topic, there does seem to be a bit of a gap. Sometimes a person involved in digitising a text will be aware of information of bibliographical interest, but has no easy way to pass that on to people who may be working on cataloging. On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, D. Starner wrote:

There are three books just added to the database that were scanned by me: Essay on Wit, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, and An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste. None of them have all the people listed on the title page included in the index. Why? At least in the case of Sigurd, the missing people rewrote a significant part of the text.