Hi folks!  While many (if not all) of us on this forum maintain our own private inventory systems in addition to the books published by Nathan and Buxbaum -- I am curious whether a collaborative catalogue exists among this community.  I cannot imagine that I am the first to ask this question, but my searches so far have found no examples.

In particular, while I am delighted by the readily shared information on this forum, including examples in the past month by Larry Moffett and Scott Shier with photos and descriptions -- the forum can become a difficult format to quickly search and reference this information.

My thought here is -- separate from tracking one's personal collection -- a repository for cataloguing information about Nat Geo items that can outlive all of us, in a standard, portable format that is also not locked into a single company or technology.

The goal is not to replace the forum -- my hope is that it would enhance and complement the discussions that happen here on the forum.

The key advantages that I see to this include:

• Reduce risk of information becoming lost
• Fill in knowledge gaps left by previous sources
• Benefit from community contributions vs the limits of a single-author effort

The key concerns I see, and have plans to address, include:

• Ease of use
• Broad accessibility without special licenses or fees
• Ability to archive or move the data to a different system or hosting platform
• Ability to limit spam
• Accountability (who made what changes, when)
• Ability to revert changes when necessary

To be clear, I am not asking someone to create this for me.  If something like this does not exist already, I plan to take the initiative to create the system and begin populating it with information available to me.  However, before investing significant time in the concept, I want to check whether an effort like this is already underway.

If something like this already exists, I would prefer to contribute to that effort instead!

For any who would want to discuss specific ideas for how to implement this, I would be happy to discuss in a separate post -- but in this thread, I'd rather keep this one on the question at hand ("has this already been done?").

Thank you for your time and wisdom!