On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:14:49 +0200 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the new "upstream.openlibrary.org" complete beginners > are encouraged to add books, as if adding more books > was needed. No, it's not. Removing duplicate records > is what's needed. Adding birth years and other > information to author records is also needed. Things > that add quality, not quantity. What percentage of > author records have anything more than the name? > How do we increase that? I would argue that people entering a book manually would be considerably more likely to add the more interesting "deeper" data. In all academic works I have added, I have also added tables of contents, often other people and time periods as well. In my recent article on OpenLibrary at the Danish Nettips website - http://www.nettips.dk/tips-til-nettet/716-openlibrary.html - I encouraged contributing to the metadata specifically because the book lover is more likely to make a more useful contribution. Yours, Morten __ Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér http://syntaktisk.dk * [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
