medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: James Ginther <[log in to unmask]>
> Your assessment is really spot on. The metadata is really, really poor and
this will hamper any useful searching of their collection.
well, who needs to be able to actually *find* anything on the site?
after all, the only thing that is important is that the book you are looking
for *may*, indeed, be there --and it is, therefore, there "en principe," so
quit your Bitchin & Moanin.
>What is really needed is some sort of crowdsourcing tool that could assist in
cataloguing such resources for medieval studes.
that, or perhaps someone involved in setting the database up who is possessed
of a functioning Mammalian Neo-Cortex
http://ariadne.org/cc/images/brain1.gif
once again the confluence of Lieberry Scientists and illiterate 'puter Nerds
trumps Western Civilization as we once Knew and Loved it.
c
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Paul Chandler <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Listmembers may be interested in the recently-launched Theological Commons
initiative jointly undertaken by Princeton Theological Seminary and the
Internet Archive. It presently has digital editions of some 50,000 books
(about 4,000 of them pre-1800), including many items of interest for the
med-rel area.
>> The scans--or so it seems from a quick browse--appear to be fairly high
>> quality. Unfortunately, as is common for many such sites, the metadata is
rather bare-bones and makes it difficult to locate individual parts of
multi-volume sets.
>> Our librarians and experts may have more knowledgeable comments. It's
certainly worth exploring: <http://commons.ptsem.edu/!@#?>[log in to unmask] -- Paul
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