We've also added checks to the new Add Book process to look for existing records (both Editions and Works), so it will be impossible to create dupes. (We're planning to extend that to the API level too, so new records written to the system that way must meet a minimum set of fields, and we check for matches/merges there too.
g Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote: > 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] _______________________________________________ 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]
