I might suggest using Google Docs, specifically a spreadsheet for the lists. The advantages I see are a spreadsheet offers more manipulation capability than Word, Google Docs is free, multiple people could update one document pretty easily, particularly if you trusted them to work from home, the finished lists could be published to the world and would be searchable through Google.

Here's a link to Google's help page on Docs which provides more information.

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