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