Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographical Database/Inspiration

National catalogues

• ESTC English Short Title Catalogue
• VD 16 Verzeichnis deutscher Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts.
• VD 17 Verzeichnis deutscher Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts.
• STCN Dutch National catalogue

Bibliographische Metakataloge

• LibraryThing
• Open Library
• Mendeley
• CiteULike
• Zotero
• BibSonomy
• wikijournals - Kkrumrueck's model project of a database for articles published in journals - using Semantic MediaWiki-Software.

Stanford: Tracking 18th-century "social network" through letters

• youtube Project: Tracking 18th-century "social network" through letters
• demo film Visualising the 17th century exchange of letters

• interactive site the tool introduced in the video above (different in different browsers).

• demo film Visualising exchange within the republic of learning.

• interactive site the tool introduced in the video above.

The European Novel 1670-1730, old html Projekt, Olaf Simons 2001

• title page

• 1710 novels published in 1710 (most catalogues did not allow such a question when I constructed this site)
• a clickable map

• Manley, Atalantis, 1709 a book page, to be compared with the ESTC’s
• Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719 another one.

Structured data, the Future! (well. let's see...)

• http://www.wolframalpha.com/
• ask for "weight of the moon" and the thing understands your question:
• http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weight+of+the+moon