Thread Name: Changes to Dogeared

From: Scot Kamins <kamins@removed>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:17:51 -0800

I've made a few changes to Dogeared:

*Home page has been somewhat restructured into more meaningful categories:

http://www.dogeared.com

* Searching the DJ database by author has been changed to a single continuous list instead of 26 separate ones:

http://www.dogeared.com/Identifiers/titleIndexAuthors.html

This does away with certain problems of location ("Where do I find De Quincy?") since you can search all the authors' names at once using your browser's Search tool (Find: Quincy)

* An introductory article has been added explaining what's in the database and how to get around in it:

http://www.dogeared.com/Identifiers/djAuthors.html

Parts have been taken from other articles and new tables constructed making things clearer.

* An article has been added describing the four ongoing projects (dust jackets, blurbs, book notes, anthology tables of contents) and how to contribute - even if you don't have a scanner:

http://www.dogeared.com/General/contribute.html

I'd appreciate it if everyone on the listServ would read this one, especially folks who have only lurked for fear of not being able to take a meaningful active part.

As always, comments are welcomed.


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From: "Ron Thoman" <rgthoman@removed>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:44:22 -0700

Great improvements, Scot.

Regarding the ToC's of Anthologies:

Are you asking for contributions of typed lists for these or individual author collections, and if so, what format, which authors, etc.


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From: Scot Kamins <kamins@removed>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:17:29 -0800

I am indeed. The lists may be typed into an e-mail and sent to me directly at kamins@dogeared.com rather than through the ListServ.

For anthologies composed of multiple writers, the format should be like any of the ones in the Misc: Short Stories category at

http://www.dogeared.com/authors/misc/short%20stories/storyAnthoJackets.html

(Use Great German Novels & Short Stories as an example).

For single writer collections, such as Maupassant's Best Stories, all I need is the author, book title and Toledano number (or some other way to identify the edition since contents sometimes changed with a new compilation), and then the table of contents.

I'm looking for ToC's of all compilations in all genres (except poetry) where the content is not evident from the title or from the dust jacket. So most of Ibsen wouldn't need ToC's, but Singer's Selected Short Stories would.

For titles that have poetry as well as prose (eg Swinburne's Selected Poetry & Prose), ignore the poetry but list everything else.

Thanks for playing!!!


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