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How about putting the data into freebase? http://www.freebase.com/

That would combine the write-access of a wiki with the structure of a 
database.

I was getting ready to compile a very similar dataset myself, so I'd be 
happy to do some of the requisite munging to get the data into freebase, 
if the idea appeals to anyone.

On 12/22/2009 1:25 PM, John Fereira wrote:
> Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>> Putting it on a wiki anyone can edit makes it, perhaps, somewhat more 
>> likely that it ends up maintained longer, making it easier for other 
>> people to get involved in maintaining it without technological 
>> barriers or proprietary feelings getting in the way.
> I was thinking of something more along the lines of putting it into a 
> CMS (i.e. Drupal) so that voting/ranking/tagging tools could be used 
> to allow the community to rate the viability and discovery of each item.
>
> I may actually need to  do something like this but for a different 
> domain on a project that I'll be working on over the next year.