Dear Prof. Ginther,

I don't have any personal experience with using it, but Omeka might be suitable for such a project. There's also Philologic, if you have a collection of texts that you want to search.

I sometimes muse about starting a database that would list all known Latin authors with available and ongoing editions to function as a starting-point for work on that text: basically, an expanded, editable version of Sharpe's Latin Writers. For something like this, I imagine that one could even use something like MediaWiki, though its format would not necessarily be ideal, and such undertakings need a solid base of usable data in order to get off the ground.

Best of luck with your project: I'll be very interested to see the result (especially if that individual author happens to be Robert Grosseteste).

Andrew Dunning PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Editing Medieval Texts Centre for Medieval Studies University of Toronto