George, thanks, that's great. I will try out some role input, just for fun!
kc Quoting George Oates <g...@archive.org>: > 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 > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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
