Nice idea, but... 1. We´d need to know what exactly we´d be indexing and in what format. Are we talking names, places, or "themes" - and then it gets tricky. With my pc based bibliographic database I´ve had huge problems trying to categorise works of secondary literature which involves a similar sort of challenge, namely consistency. 2. We´re talking huge amounts of work. 3. Klett should do it all in SGML and TEI, mount it on the web and charge for access. Micro-payment system would probably be best, I should think, for individuals and then Institutions could pay more. But I don´t work there, I just have to deal with all the books EJ ever wrote and more... An example of what´s possible is the Wilfred Owen Multimedia Archive based up the road from me at our Humanities Computing Unit: http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ which was part of the virtual seminars project: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ It would be great to do something similar for Juenger, but that would require a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of people to want it to happen... Back to Olaf´s suggestion: one possiblity would be to use a common database with a WWW front-end, I guess, but I´m not clever enough to set that up yet. Such a thing will feature in the next EJ in Cyberspace - which is going to be a very different beast in any case. JK ============================================================================== John King St. John's College GB - Oxford OX1 3JP ==============================================================================
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