There are slides that include material about doing analysis of costs for such systems. Additional Thoughts Evan Williams wrote some comments that are relevant here. He points out that a good volunteer-created database should be designed with incentive for the entry of accurate information . You can read Evan's comments in his February 16 entry . A normal simple database would have just that text.
Some people provide a mixture with one name in parenthesis.
So, here again, more users increases the value, this time by adding human created variations. This is another part of the bar recording industry-provided systems will have to get over if they want to serve music lovers as well as Napster. It isn't just price. In 1994 he published a paper with that title. Copyright 1999-2001 by Daniel Bricklin All Rights Reserved.