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What such a data base should be able to do:

  1. Everything a data base such as the ESTC can do.[1]
  2. It should be possible to correct entries – as in Wikipedia.
  3. One should be able to set footnotes (it is of no use if I can state that the Queen Zarah (1705) was not written by Delarivier Manley if I do not have to state how I happen to know this.)
  4. One should be able to give the publishing histories of titles: What was the first edition, the sequence of succeeding editions, imitations etc.? [2]
  5. One should be able to handle different sorts of materials – i.e. bibliographical and archival materials: I know of a person appearing in the book, know archival materials about this person and can set links between pages.
  6. One should be able to set links to outside pages – e.g. digitalisations.
  7. If you change something within the data base Wikipedia-articles should receive the new information automatically.
  8. The Google Books “review this book” option – we should be able to do this better and perhaps offer our service to Google Books
  9. ..the same offer could be an improved “advanced search” for Google.
  10. It would be desirable if the tool could be accessed easily to create statistics.[3] [4]
  11. There should be a special name space for research projects

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