On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Sj wrote (about Wikicite):
I was wary of this idea at first, but after
talking to Stirling about
it last week, I am very enthusiastic. Two librarians I have talked to
in Boston seem to think it's a good idea, also.
As in "if you cook, we will eat", or the other way around?
Stirling Newbury wrote:
together
in a live manner, which allows for the creation of
bibliographic apparatus. The Library of Congress is working on such a
project for its purposes, it is the purpose of this project to create
an open wiki system which will allow:
Who are these people at LoC? Does
their project have a name?
Bibliographic enhancement, there is a link on the page.
I think the best way is to digitize every book
and give each page a
URL, like this,
http://runeberg.org/pictswed/0219.html
Where the material is in Wikisource this is great, but you still need
the card for context and references.
We already know how to handle URLs, and it's
only a matter of time
until we have scanned every book and newspaper there is. I would
guess the task will be completed within the next 50 years. Most of us
will be around to see it.
So, I have a proposed solution and a time table. What's your time
table?
Links to sources don't create citation indexes, they don't make citing
easier and they don't allow us to annotate sources - it also assumes
that a great deal of material will be released into the public domain
that is not currently. I feel that we can have a first pass wikicite
ready to be used in wikipedia and wikitionary articles within a year
based on ISBN numbers for books and ISSN numbers for journals.
ISBNs are of limited value since they were only adopted in 1970. Most
of that material is still copyright protected. The public domain
material on Wikisource is much older than that, and has no ISBNs.
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