The "Open" Library Project

I was searching for how wiki's help the library, when I came across this site. This news link takes you to a wiki that is designed to be an wiki catalog, of sorts.

Wrap your head around this concept; you have your local library. ~3000 books in it. Each book has it's own wiki page, with detailed information on the page (page numbers, publisher, author, ISBN, etc.), then below it has a synopsis of the plot line, then the characters, then the location of the book in the library, etc etc.

This is scary, but useful. To me, this is the replacement of online catalogs; this is a hand made wiki for patrons and staff alike to 'advertise' their books that they have in the library. This way, patrons could possibly contribute to the library by adding characters to wiki pages that are place holders, editing possible fat-finger-errors for staff, etc.

Looks cool, would it work? Don't think so; to get this project off the ground would take weeks of hours of work. Once it was built, could it be used? Dunno, the staff would have to dedicate a lot of time to keep it relevant. Would it nice to the end user? Absolutely.

Enough brainstorming and thinking, enjoy this cat picture I found from my bloglines from an earlier post.