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It has been long since my last post and, since summer is a time for personal projects, I would like to comment on a current ongoing project of great interest for "celestinistas": a searchable on-line database of celestinesque bibliography.[caption id="attachment_2813" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Database frontpage.[/caption]Unlike the bibliographies of Lilian von der Walde Moheno1and A. Robert Lauer2, HTML-based and conceived as a traditional list of recommended readings, this new project is inspired by on-line library catalogues and aims to serve as an useful research tool, as well as as a digital alternative to and a backup of Joseph T. Snow's impressive bibliography on the topic3 and Celestinesca's "suplementos bibliográficos". Therefore, on its current stage, the purpose of this project is to create a database record for each bibliographical item in both, Snow's and Celestinesca's bibliographies. This proves a tedious and long work, as there are more than two thousand and only slightly more than ten per cent have been introduced in the database by now, but the amount of records keeps growing and it is very likely that the database will be complete by 2015.[caption id="attachment_2814" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Records 1-5 (from 325) in table view.[/caption][caption id="attachment_2816" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Records 1-8 (from 325) in list view.[/caption]After some failed attempts at self-programming of the frontend and much fighting with the otherwise very useful database interface builder Xataface, it was decided to use the web-based customisable bibliographical database RefBase, which covered most of the needs of the project. Not only does it offer an excellent, almost fully customisable search tool, and several results views, but it does also offer the possibility to save and export bibliographical records directly to your computer or bibliographical software. Moreover, it allows users to keep track of the latest bibliographical entries thank to its RSS feed, and to access directly on-line items.[caption id="attachment_2835" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Simple search form.[/caption]At present, this is a one-person project but should you be interested in participating or knowing the public URL, please contact me.1Walde Moheno, Lilian von der (website), "Bibliografía: La Celestina" &#60;http://www.waldemoheno.net/Medioevo/Cel.html&#62; (25/07/2014).2Lauer, A. Robert (website), "Bibliografía celestinesca" &#60;http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/BibCelestina.html&#62; (25/07/2014).3Snow, Joseph T. (1985), "Celestina" by Fernando de Rojas: An Annotated Bibliography of World Interest 1930-1985, (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies).