Quoting Alan Millar <[email protected]>:
> > I agree, but the "author" field is already an overloaded misnomer. > The catalog has plenty of music CDs. The intention is to have only books and very book-like objects in the OL. I can only guess that the CDs are in there because they were mis-coded in one of the source files. There may already be a task on the list to remove these algorithmically. Ah, yes, here it is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary/+bug/609801 kc > (I've already cleaned up quite a > few of the entries with "cdpham" and those other codes in them.) For > classical music, calling the composer the author is a stretch but is > close enough. For popular music, it is nearly always the performer, > and not the composer, but "everybody knows" that people are going to > search for popular music by the band or singer. And if the catalog > doesn't already have movies in it, it probably will at some point > also. Author is not literally a useful designation for movies. Most > people aren't searching for movies by screenwriter. > >> 2. Eventually treat all contributors in the same way that author is >> treated today. > > In my opinion that makes the most sense. IMHO, the current additional > contributors list should be integrated with the author list, and the > author list should have roles attached to each entry (with "author" as > the obvious default). We certainly can call it the "author" list (as > an historical artifact of cataloging convention and nod to tradition) > but I think having one list of people with explicit roles will be the > most useful way to organize and use the data. > > - Alan > _______________________________________________ > 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]
