Every book, ever published! :)
On 2/25/11 3:39 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > If you do start adding in some "adult" books,it would be very > interesting to see what their coverage is in Google Books. I heard A > representative of Google Books a while back make a statement that > essentially said that they *might* exclude books that they consider to > be "pornographic." We also know that they have built into their search > ranking algorithms a way to keep "pr0n" from showing up in the first > pages. Also that Amazon does not include "sexually explicit" books in > their ranking of books. I'm not sure that OL wants to become the go-to > place for those "books you read with one hand" (as Henry Miller called > them), but being able to be the uncensored place for books would not > be a bad thing, IMO. > > kc > > Quoting Alex Stinson<[email protected]>: > >> Though I certainly am not one of the sponsors of the project, I am one of >> the volunteers and I would be rather offended if a program that called >> itself "Open Library" would in fact be closed to broadly published books, >> even if they are controversial. I think in a case like this you want to look >> at common sense: we want to share open knowledge about books, per >> http://openlibrary.org/help/faq#oclc , so any book published openly and that >> could reasonably be included in any type of library (public, university or >> adult if such a thing exists) should be included. Does that mean we include >> all adult books published? No, but, in general all books published with some >> degree of circulation should be here. This is my opinion, I think it would >> be very counterproductive to start not including books because of some sense >> of moral judgement on them. That simply isn't the role of the librarian. >> >> I have seen similar discussions at Wikipedia and what it comes down to is: >> if you are going to keep a project free and open, then any form of >> censorship is against the grain of the mission, whereas reasonable exclusion >> of things which aren't important, or in Wikipedia terms notable, makes >> sense. >> >> Alex Stinson >> User:Sadads >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sadads >> >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Stuart Fanning< >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A bit of guidance please. When book censorship lifted in the US in the >>> mid to late 1960's a large number of 'adult' books were published, many of >>> which have become collectable items. Are the owners/sponsors of The Open >>> Library happy for these titles to be added, or would prefer for them not to >>> be? >>> >>> Thanks, Stuart Fanning >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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]
