Actually, these probably come from Amazon records, not library records (the few I looked at were from Amazon). Libraries allow a book (or other item) to not have an author, either because it is unknown, or because the item was created in such a complex process that authorship isn't appropriate. (I believe that films fit this category). We talked at one point in OL of whether all of the books without authors would get a default author "anonymous", but decided that it might be ok for display but isn't at all useful for searching. It's kind of like having an input list and allowing people to use "other."
kc Quoting George Oates <[email protected]>: > A quick search for "author" reveals other alternatives used by (professional) > catalogers: > > http://openlibrary.org/search?author=author > (See the Author search facet.) > > Unknown author 403 > Unknown Author 358 > Author unknown 254 > No Author 145 > Author Unknown 59 > No Author. 54 > Author 20 > No author. 16 > No author 12 > unknown author 8 > Unknown Author Unknown 7 > no author 7 > No Author Stated 7 > (No Author) 6 > No author noted 5 > No author noted. 4 > no author listed 4 > (no author) 4 > Author Not Stated 4 > Author. 4 > No author specified 3 > Miscellaneous Author 3 > no Author 3 > Author One 3 > Multi-Author 3 > No Author Listed 3 > No Stated Author 3 > Author Anonymous 2 > (no author given) 2 > Author 2 > Author Wright 2 > Unkown Author 2 > No author stated 2 > Mms suspense author 2 > Author Test 2 > TEST AUTHOR 2 > > Cheers, > george > > > > On 10/18/10 11:26 AM, Patrick Conley wrote: >> If there are tales, there must be an author or an editor. In the >> case of the >> audio cassette I would use "Unknown". >> >> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2624611A/Unknown (2.712 works) >> >> or >> >> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2674189A/Author_unknown (254 works) >> >> >> Am 18.10.2010 19:53, schrieb Sarah Breau: >>> Some books have too many authors to name, or no author given. For >>> example, the >>> author of Tales of Fools and Wise Folk (OL9838343W) is listed as >>> "Storytelling >>> Press National" which is not an author. Often a book's editor is put in the >>> author field, but when given a choice, I leave the author field >>> blank and put >>> the editor in as a contributor. However, at this point, I cannot remove the >>> author from a work, and since Tales of Fools and Wise Folk does not have an >>> editor, I guess the publisher will have to stand in for now. Since >>> it can be >>> difficult to add all contributing authors to the author field (I >>> recently came >>> across a collection that had over 300 authors) I think we should be able to >>> make the author field blank. Any suggestions? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
