Quoting Emily Lynema <[email protected]>:
What seems like would make more sense for us is to link to a Work
record in Open Library or Internet Archive which can then direct users
to all volumes digitized for that Work. I searched this title in Open
Library and found individual results for the various years of the
journal, so it didn't seem like that kind of aggregated record was
being exposed to users at this point.
See here for an example:
http://openlibrary.org/search?q=polytechnisches+Journal
Interesting idea, Emily. In general it makes sense, but a few caveats:
1) Open Library does not *consciously* take in non-monographs. Some do
slip in, but it is intended to be a Books database
2) Multi-volume items are a general problem because they end up
looking like duplicate entries (each is represented by the same
bibliographic data), and I fear that some may be lost during
de-duping. OL has it on its list of "things to fix". Right now, the
record format doesn't have a place to link a digital file to a volume
number within a "Manifestation" level record. (And I fear that in some
cases the volume numbers may not have been retained in the metadata.
*sigh*)
kc
Do you think a Work record page in Open Library that we could link to
from our local systems would be an effective solution to this problem?
Anybody have other ideas?
-emiliy
CODE4LIB automatic digest system wrote:
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:22:41 -0700
From: Karen Coyle <[email protected]>
Subject: Works API
Open Library now has Works defined, and is looking to develop an
API for their retrieval. It makes obvious sense that when a Work
is retrieved via the API, that the data output would include links
to the Editions that link to that Work. Here are a few possible
options:
1) Retrieve Work information (author, title, subjects, possibly
reviews, descriptions, first lines) alone
2) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers for all related Editions
3) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers + any other
identifiers related to the Edition (ISBN, OCLC#, LCCN)
4) Retrieve Work information and links to Editions with full text / scans
Well, you can see where I'm going with this. What would be useful?
kc
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