[game_preservation] Bibliography project

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hey all,

I'll probably get the other projects' ideas more fleshed out in the 
coming weeks (people who take over a project can sort their own parts 
though of course :) ), but this one is immediately in my mind and could 
use some good comments early on.

Basically, me and Devin discussed a Bibliography - a list of resources, 
from the normal books to web articles to other media. It would replace 
our current "Resources" list, which is a nightmare to edit and check though!

If anyone has any thoughts on these points, or anything I've forgotten, 
would be ace:
* What kind of fields would be useful to have for each entry (author, 
name, URL, ISBN/ISSN and keywords are obvious, any others?)
* Categories of resources
** by type - such as "book", "news article", "opinion article"...?
** and also content - "game history", "game culture", "legal", 
"preview", "review", "discussion"...? not sure...
* Should I add in a way to reference the game(s) the article might refer to?
* Should there be a facility to either add the entire text of an article 
(so it is searchable, ala google books) or at perhaps at least an 
extract to the entry?
* Should there be a "importance" field - basically our opinion on how 
"useful" some resource is? This might help pick out the "Must reference" 
resources perhaps.
* I think there should be a facility to have an editor-added comment on 
the content of the article - the description, as it were. Thoughts?
* Who wants to help add entries? :) it'll be editor run (with, I hope, 
publicly hidden histories kinda like a wiki) perhaps with some facility 
to have users submit entries. Editing with ease is going to be the priority.

I was going to build a basic site to accommodate this for the mean time 
(it won't be on the IGDA's own server, I'd rather not fight to get 
webspace right now with Jason leaving who was the webmaster ;) ), and 
just basically get it up and running so people can add items. So, a 
simple PHP site, since I know some basic PHP :) I'd build it "correctly" 
since I want to expand this if it is useful, but I hope it'll be quick - 
so the layout will start absolutely horribly at first of course, heh.

Andrew