Margeret:
I vote for Mixel's idea. It has the additional benefit of ensuring
some discussion between folk on the books requested, which means
that one benefits from 'interpretative' aspects of 'the other', and
not just from a subjective 'private' read. It also builds
friendships and collaborative
More generally, a collective
intelligence will emerge most easily if it provides immediate
INDIVIDUAL benefits, i.e. if the database would be so handy and
useful that you would enter data for your own use (e.g. maintaining a
bibliography of papers you read for your PhD thesis), even if it
I've been using latex for a while as a programmer I was interested in
the limits of Latex, BibTex, etc.
If you are ready I can give you an introduction.
Mixel
On 30-sep-04, at 17:09, Klaas Chielens wrote:
If the database could generate Bibliographies (BibTeX for
LaTeX users, and html or pdf with
