Just to clarify - It's possible to attach a role to a contributor at the edition level, and the list of available roles is wiki-editable.
Cheers, george On 11/24/10 10:32 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Yes, you are absolutely right, we should also move those names to the > "contributor" area. At the moment, I don't believe that contributor > has a place for role, but that's something else that would be useful. > > The other two (from old catalog and the series statements) are ones > that have been noted before, and the idea was to handle them > algorithmically. "Fom old catalog" comes in from Library of Congress > records, and the series statements in titles from Amazon. > > kc > > Quoting Alan Millar<amillar...@gmail.com>: > >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Karen Coyle<kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote: >>> It might be necessary to drop them out of the Amazon data gathering, >>> although it would be a shame because they also contribute some of the >>> "long tail" books to the database. I wonder it it wouldn't at least be >>> possible to drop all of the instances of >>> "(translator)" (case insensitive) >>> from the author strings and see how much that clears these up. (I also >>> saw a few cases of "[translator]" and there may be other patterns as >>> well.) >> >> Personally, I don't think we should automate dropping them; it is good >> metadata. Rather, I think we should automate moving it into the >> additional people list. The trick will be coming up with some >> judicious pattern matching smarts. >> >> (But here is another fun one that probably should be just dropped: >> http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=from+old+catalog >> :-) >> >> I see quite a few cases where useful metadata could be moved from one >> field to another. Things such as book titles with series or edition >> suffixes like "(Great Classics Series)" or >> http://openlibrary.org/search?q=large+print+edition >> etc. These follow fairly regular patterns, so it could be automated >> with supervision. >> >> I'd like to automate some of that myself, but I haven't come across >> any references to bulk update tools for users. I've downloaded the >> dumps and grep'ed through them as information for author merges, but I >> haven't seen any way for me to do the actual updates besides a real >> browser. The API docs indicate they are read-only for remote users. >> >> Anyone have any techniques they are using currently for mass updates? >> >> - Alan >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-discuss mailing list >> Ol-discuss@archive.org >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
