Re: on duplications
- From: "David Starner" <prosfilaes@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: on duplications
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:01:18 CDT
On 5/12/06, Jon Noring <jon@[redacted]> wrote:
> By and large, the pre-DP corpus of PG texts is totally devoid of
> important metadata, such a source(s), except of course the ubiquitous
> title and author. Do we want to dump on future generations a bunch of
> digital texts which contain no metadata information beyond title and
> author?
Do we need to have this discussion again? I've thought of a lot of
responses, but I've mentioned them all on this list before. Somewhat
new may be the point that by and large, the pre-DP corpus of PG texts
is books with dozens of editions that probably have or will have
alternate electronic editions done by scholars no matter what PG does,
and as always, most non-scholars don't particularly care.