I've thought about this a little more. And yes, favourites, tagging, and "community" features are good _if people want them_. But on the other hand, I have many times taken a look at a potentially interesting web site, only to see that I have to register or create an account to access any content, and then I leave without looking any further. So i would suggest that free un-encumbered access to the texts in the collection is needed. Andrew On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Jen Zed wrote:
hmmmm...yeah, I should probably think of the site architecture as "core" (book search / book display) and "extended" (accounts, favourites, tagging, etc). The "extended" interface could be enabled or disabled by the webmaster or the user (or based on the language selected on the portal page) ... more on the wiki: http://www.jenzed.com/pgcawiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PortalPlan
Good feedback, Andrew - thanks for preventing me from riding madly off in all directions. :)