Dear Mr. Loh,
your company is one of the bibliographic publications praised readily in practice but almost never used.
This statement is now no further unpleasantness from the house of the critic from the service, but it includes in itself a concrete proposal - before a personal memory.
I was in fact, by your example, thirty years ago, possessed of a bibliographic idea that I had some years of my free time sacrificed, but from today's perspective, bizarre, and useless and I, in fact, it also brought little credit added. I set out to provide a list of current and historical development of international collections of newspaper clippings on the legs. The accident would have it, namely, that I had a note from the Paris newspaper from 1942 fell into the hands of Dovifat, then of course the very enigmatic leader of the journalism, such had described as a work project urgent and very erwünsche. This, his worries at the height of World War I made my own ass ...
Long before the first of digitizing newspaper archives, and the cornucopia of knowledge - Computer and Internet have attributed to Google the subject again made up to date - I stopped the work. I should have known better, because several U.S. press archivists introduced me to her very early electronic work projects, primarily from Los Angeles, Miami and New York reached me thick envelopes with copies Fiches and diagrams from the local press archives.
Why do I send this personal memories ahead? Your work projects reminds me very old at my newspaper project: put in at a place from which you in the near future useful, indeed may even make Groundbreaking - but the awkwardness you from now on further below, the devil and maybe a disappointment the kind that I had to know at that time also.
All you praise that is dutifully, but no one really needs your work in its present form. There remained in the realm of bibliography truly magnificent, the ruins and torso, and its continuation today, seems sensible - such as the printed German catalog, broken 1943rd There is also a mass of hard work that would have had just as well may be omitted. On the face belongs to your work.
Here you will find antique shops, but people who recognize the profound benefits of your work and you do that we hope can provide important momentum, as it were "tricks" with which your work appears just yet important, useful and usable .
, allow me to forget eh wirs, a technical note. Some time ago I made a test with the KVK, how is it now really ordered the stockpiling, with the collection of bookseller catalogs in German Libraries. In combination with this, I asked the libraries I know of Freiburg. Belämmernde The upshot is that the collection of lists and catalogs throughout terribly happens only occasionally and selectively! It is true now does not know what is in your website, may I quote: "... as some catalogs - especially for larger companies - in many libraries are available". Of course, you will find about the Nuremberg catalogs youth movement at each PH (hopefully), but even in the critically-important, in its way quite irreplaceable subject lists of colleagues moisture is in Allmendingen. Each antiquarian like myself because the sample make the pudding with his own catalog - the result will be my gentle horror . Confirm
now collects from the bookseller 'yes' catalogs quite busy, but who always like to go to Frankfurt - interlibrary loan or pay in each Katalöglein 1.50 €?
So, I would not have noticed before, we are now scraping the barrel.
I invite you to cooperate with me in the form of:
We scan the catalogs, all new coming out and, as much as possible from the time here, today, starting retrospectively the older ones. Each double page requires scanned with an electronic reading about a minute. Errors are hardly reworking are hardly necessary, because the catalogs are now, unlike in Rotaprintzeitalter, in excellent machine-readable.
The data sets we throw in one big pot. This is automatically sorted by author alphabetically. Where this is not how it works, because such numbers are preceded by, we have to make some (rather few) thoughts.
us with an abundant pool of bibliographic records from lists and catalogs, with prices and when the colleague was busy, too clever observations on the meaning and content. If a list contains an average of 400 titles and 200 may appear catalogs / lists in the year is the 80 000 Titles a year. A collection of 10 years ago seem to me a good mediocrity - then we have The Brothers
1 million tracks prices.
This database, because nothing else is clear, we let Google index the full text, so that each, but really every word can be retrieved in seconds.
what is now the special value of this database?
* Almost every antiquarian treats its catalog and specialty items in the list far more carefully than the average sales portal recordings, too, are often more interesting in the title selection and demanding. It is, of course, not always handle, currently more often called for Q uality of antiquarian texts or challenged. Would from the lists and catalogs generated here can claim a very high level of quality for themselves.
* The "Books-Michel," a hideous from ZVAB would in the sand driven projects implemented by our project to a much more elegant way to better use and, nota bene, if he were any colleague and every customer free of charge.
Since we know our Pappenheimer, finally, a word on the law. Whether the ladies and gentlemen, the now want to take (for once) to the attention or not, the single record in the bookseller, the track record is not as a single text copyright protected. Creation height is too low.
It would be otherwise involved in the commercial use of our titles. No competitor can I use it for one of mine-like sales activity (borderline Ebay, if the track record is only a few days on the net), that he may well not if he meant new bibliographic records added.
What are we, Mr Loh is also the competition law untetrworfen. Free of copyright and competition law concerns we are allowed to work. It is a matter of honor, made in a time of the vilest money making in this area all the material for free online. Google makes it possible.
Well, you feel like?
friendly greeting to Leipzig tells
Peter Mulzer
The photo of the fountain colleagues - some of the best written of the catalogs is that I know - We owe the Commercial Union, of the rights to it (let's hope) has
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