Wrote a page about linking policy. http://www.gutenberg.net/howto-link 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? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.net
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Wrote a page about linking policy.
http://www.gutenberg.net/howto-link
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 think that would probably be acceptable to most. Leave as many options open as possible. Michael
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."
Greg Newby wrote:
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.
I've added a section re. independent search sites. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.net
I think we should just encourage linkers to link to the bibrec pages and basically ignore the links directly to the texts. If the texts change location (like the pre 10k will), then those links will break and oh, well, sorry. We never said those were good link spots. My humble opinion, of course. Josh Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Should we require them to prominently display a live link to our main page along with any search results?
I think that the links accessed from the "In Depth Information and Volunteer Section" should be allowed too. Probably, the only discouraged links should be the direct links to books (for example DP has a lot of them in the "gold star" list, but it would be better to change...) Linking e.g. to a section of the FAQ is very useful. By the way, some links at PG are broken: e.g. the newsletters. Carlo
Carlo Traverso wrote:
I think that the links accessed from the "In Depth Information and Volunteer Section" should be allowed too. Probably, the only discouraged links should be the direct links to books (for example DP has a lot of them in the "gold star" list, but it would be better to change...)
Linking e.g. to a section of the FAQ is very useful.
The policy is addressing the many "outside" people. They almost always want to link to some book. I'll see what I can do to soften the policy ...
By the way, some links at PG are broken: e.g. the newsletters.
I know. I fixed a slew of them in the past but they keep going broken. You'll have to bug the newsletter editors. :-) -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.net
Carlo Traverso wrote:
I think that the links accessed from the "In Depth Information and Volunteer Section" should be allowed too. Probably, the only discouraged links should be the direct links to books (for example DP has a lot of them in the "gold star" list, but it would be better to change...)
Linking e.g. to a section of the FAQ is very useful.
I reworded some of the policy to only deprecate direct links to the files. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.net
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