Oh, Richard, this is very nice!

I tried adding the volumes as links on the edition, but unfortunately  
links get moved to the Work and are supposed to be links to things  
outside of OL, but I think an Edition-level link would do it. It is  
possible to add more than one Archive number for an Edition. I tried  
doing that, but my added link doesn't seem to take.... I'll check to  
see if this is a known bug. In any case, all you see is the archive  
ID, and it isn't clear what volume goes with which ID unless you're  
something of an insider.

kc


Quoting [email protected]:

> I've been adding links to Internet Archive scanned books into the U.S.
> National Park Service library catalog:
> http://www.library.nps.gov/
>
> When I add links for multivolume works I spell out the volume number in the
> link that is on our bibliographic
> metadata page, which goes to the Internet Archive metadata page. Basically
> I feel that it is appropriate for the IA page
> to have a one to one relationship to each scanned book but the
> bibliographic metadata page in our catalog,
> as well as the one on Open Library, can and should have a one to many
> relationship to scanned books.
>
> Here is an example of a work held by Morristown National Historical Park
> that's been scanned out of the
> University of California Library collections:
> http://www.library.nps.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BOOL1=all+of+these&FLD1=Keyword+Anywhere+(GKEY)&CNT=25+records+per+page&SAB1=NPSPARKMORR120
>
> With some citations I have links to multiple copies of scans also. I feel
> that this redundance is good because
> some scans may not be as good as others, some originals may not be as good
> as others. Also, redundance
> can protect against maliciously adulterated digital copies.
>
> The above example also has a Google Books "About This Book" link created by
> the software that we use, at display time
> via a look up using embedded numeric identifiers in the underlying MARC
> record.
>
> The software that we use is the same as that used by the U.S. Library of
> Congress, Ex Libris' Voyager, though their use
> would be more conservative than my usages, which I feel anticipate FRBR.
>
> Because I spell out "Internet Archive" in my links, that is actually a
> "keyword anywhere" searchable phrase that can be used to
> isolate citations with links to readable online books that fit the scope of
> the National Park Service libraries.
>
> Richard Aroksaar
> NPS Voyager System Administrator
> 206-220-4252
> 206-612-2006 (cell)
>
> [email protected] wrote on 12/30/2010 02:21:43 PM:
>
>> Yes, the multi-volume book "problem" appears a handful of times in the
>> bug list. We've talked about various solutions, including using the
>> Table of Contents as a way to link the volumes to the bibliographic
>> data. It's tricky because the Archive treats them as separate items
>> since each one results in a separate digital file.
>>
>> At the moment there isn't a way (AFAIK) to link an entry in the
>> archive to a volume listed in the ToC, so I don't know of a way to
>> connect up v. 2 of the work to the digital file for v. 2. Has anyone
>> added multiple Archive identifiers for multi-volume works on a single
>> edition record? There wouldn't be a one-to-one link between the
>> individual volumes and the correct identifier, but at least they'd be
>> on the same edition record.
>>
>> Anyway, this is a known problem, and possibly one for which there
>> isn't yet a good solution.
>>
>> kc
>>
>> Quoting Steve Thomas <[email protected]>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm looking at works in archive.org, and I see that the catalogue
> records
>> > for multi-volume works includes a separate record for each
> volume,typically
>> > without a volume number.
>> >
>> > E.g.
>> > http://openlibrary.
>>
> org/works/OL20752W/Works_containing_additional_letters_tracts_and_poems_not_hitherto_published
>
>> >
>> > <http://openlibrary.
>>
> org/works/OL20752W/Works_containing_additional_letters_tracts_and_poems_not_hitherto_published
>
>> >where
>> > it looks like there are multiple editions, when in fact they are
> (almost)
>> > all separate volumes of the same edition.
>> >
>> > There's nowhere in Edit that lets me add a volume number, which means
> that a
>> > user would have to open each volume separately to find out which volume
> it
>> > is.
>> >
>> > Obviously, best practice would be to have all volumes listed as items
> under
>> > a single title, but it doesn't look like OL is set up for that.
>> >
>> > Next best would be to include the volume number in the title, to
> distinguish
>> > them.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
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