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Subject: Re: The brick and mortar
From: "mieum" <mieum@namu.blue>
To: "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>, "Arav K." <nothien@uber.space>,
 <~mieum/booksin.space@lists.sr.ht>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:24:36 +0900
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In-Reply-To: <C6PFWOLA86PR.369ZY2I5TWX05@taiga>

>- Date of publication
>- Date of addition to catalogue
>- Publisher
>- Book series, if a member of one
>- ISBN
>- Dewey Decimal Number

The only problem here is that, in the case of PG, this information is
not provided. The metadata they do provide is specific to their
representations of the original works. Because their contents are all
public domain works, in some cases their versions are not clearly
representations of any particular edition or source of the original.
In this case, their versions are technically derivative works (and the
ISBN, for example, is irrelevant or never existed).

Of course, not all content will come from Project Gutenberg, but finding
a source that includes all that metadata about the version of the
original from which it derives (and which is easily gemtextified)  may=20
be an unneccessary hurdle. It is definitely not impossible, but it would=20
add a certain degree of complexity to the project, for sure! I guess it
depends on how far down the rabbit hole we want to go haha

~mieum