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At 10:53 AM 10/18/2005, Steve Smolian wrote: >But discographies on-line can be corrected. A Wikopedia type >structure might work- corrections by peer review, signed, should be >a good starting place. Yes, this has been suggested for many years (in 1998 I began a small mailing list on the subject titled "jazz computer discography project"). It's easier said than done. The fact is that the database programming for such a thing is much more involved than for a single-user offline database. But the data exchange function in the BRIAN application is a major step in the right direction. Users can and do submit corrections and additions in XML format to the appropriate discographers. From what I know of the Wikipedia project, it's just plain text (with some hyperlinks) not any kind of database (and it shouldn't be - it's encyclopedia-type text). Mike mike at JazzDiscography.com http://www.JazzDiscography.com