It's called World Cat (www.worldcat.org) and claims to catalog every
book in print in the world. Other databases allow one to search for
published research (can be restricted to peer-reviewed). Then, your
friendly neighborhood librarian (knowledge custodian?) can help you
obtain print copies of whatever is not yet available online. That's
about as close to the Star Trek model as we've come so far. But
perhaps a few more additions and tweaks to the software will allow us
to approximate the Enterprise computer (preferably with HoloDeck) in
the not too distant future ;)
Barry
On Aug 8, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
I've always preferred the Star Trek model with a space ship with all
of the
published data in existence available for the universe of the crew
to study
for their own enlightenment and the sustenance of the ship. Not a
bad
model. Always have people to keep up the archive in the ship's
computer.
REH
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