Book People Archive

Re: Re: Possible conference for on-line book publishing?

>Technically, it isn't hard to set up a digital ID system.  The hard
>parts are maintaining it, and getting a large community to buy into it.
>You have to have something that people trust will still be around, and
>reliable, decades from now, and that people are going to be willing to
>adopt and use.  Without that, there isn't much point in building such
>a system.

Well, keeping a system up seems to be a problem along similar lines to
keeping e-texts around.  And the best way to do it is through mirroring of
databases.  I think a lookup database would still be useful even if
synchronization occurred over a 24 hour period.

> $1000 a pop system snipped.
>For more information, see http://www.doi.org/

To expensive for me.  And I *would* like the ability to note that I had
made X number of proofreading changes to a text, as well as the database
listing the locations of texts (hm. tie the IPL in?)

>same way as other Handles do.  For more on Handles, see http://www.handle.net/

And this one, since free, seems more promising.  Will check it out, but
does seem like there's no need for a new system.  Ah well.
Thanks for the links!