Talk:List of digital library projects

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[edit] Categories

Greetings all, I would like to support the comment by Imran. Categories could start with countries, perhaps (!) From a quick read below, it looks like this section has got off to a good start, and then ...

Not sure how to proceed from here, because the wikipedia editing rules are a lot to take in at first, but how do people feel about starting categories with countries? avaiki 03:17, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Links to other project from the Project Gutenberg article:

Also, Project Runeberg maintains a large list of digital library projects at http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/admin/foreign.html -- Stephen Gilbert 18:17 Dec 11, 2002 (UTC)

More links:

This list just looks like a data dump at the moment. I think we need to clean it up, break them into seperate categories and provide at least a short description for each. --Imran 20:11, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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large western mss libs see http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/DigitaleHandschriften

lots of unknown projects http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/DeutscheDrucke#titelanker4

incunabula http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/InkunabelLinks

Shouldn't wikisource be on here?

We can add

It seems to be new. Oriel

The Hearth - Home Economics Archive at Cornell University http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/

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Though I have found no firm statements, East of the Web appears to be inactive. Its copyright dates end in 2003 and there has been nothing in the "New Titles" section for some time. Should we perhaps place a note beside the link in this article? 82.11.32.93 14:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links

If an online library site is down long-term, then we should not maintain a link here.--SallyForth123 01:09, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

unless it has been really important previously. . The link should be marked to show it is dead. See WP:EL. DGG (talk) 17:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Also, I think that we should NOT double-link. If the online library already has a W page, then please do not provide a URL: it only contributes to linkrot overhead.--SallyForth123 01:20, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Individual libraries

I think we should be very reluctant to includee collections at individual libraries--I would argue for a certain major level of notability, such that Akron-Summit County Public Library's Digital Exhibits is not included. There's a distinction between a notable digital library project, and a mere Institutional repository, such as almost every major university now hasDGG (talk) 03:50, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links or citations

The {{external links}} template was added to this article with an edit history comment of

03:39, 9 November 2007 user:ZimZalaBim (why so many external links? Wikipedia isn't a directly of links)

I think this is a misunderstanding of term external links. When external links are used as they are in this article at the moment, they are "embedded citations" and are covered under the verification policy. So unless there is a consensus not to do so, I would like to remove the template. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 10:42, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. These are not embedded citations in the sense that a claim is made that needs to be verified by an external source. These are simply links to external websites, and Wikipedia is not meant to be a directory of external websites. --ZimZalaBim talk 15:13, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
I think that the claims need citations. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 23:54, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
These aren't claims - these are merely lists of external projects with links, ie, a directory. A claim is something like "XYZ's digital library project is the largest..." - that would need an external citation. --ZimZalaBim talk 00:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Normally I would say that each listing in articles like this ought to have a corresponding individual article, and that we would therefore not need the external links, but in this particular case there are many such projects that need & deserve mention here, and we can not keep up with them in writing articles. We do however need some better specification of just what the standards should be for inclusion. DGG (talk) 08:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
The argument that there are too many projects to keep up with doesn't hold water givin this (WP) is a collaborative-based project where there is no shortage of people/energy (let alone bots) to create articles, and that's no reason to create a linkfarm.-ZimZalaBim talk 11:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
From my perspective, this article is a linkfarm, and all the external links should be removed. This is standard practice and I believe there's a great deal of consensus for it across Wikipedia. --Ronz (talk) 16:18, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Safari

http://safari.oreilly.com/

... books from a bunch of publishers, as a service. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.55.25.184 (talk) 03:00, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List inclusion criteria

Per WP:LIST, I think the only list entries allowed in the article should be those with their own article. At least until a different inclusion criteria is agreed upon and made clear in the article. --Ronz (talk) 16:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Would agree with that inclusion criterion. Adding empty Red links to an article does not add any content or meaning to wikipedia and is an unhelpful contribution. WP:WTAF is worth a read.--Hu12 (talk) 16:47, 6 March 2008 (UTC)