George, On Wikipedia, I have never wanted for more data when searching for Journals or journal articles the basic information required at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal . Though I have never dealt with the library end of things before, having the automatic links through ISSN and DOI integrated into the input fields is incredibly useful and most academic journals now use one of these systems, though they tend towards individual Articles, but I believe they also encompass entire volumes as well,
Alex On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:55 PM, George Oates <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > There's a slim chance I asked this list about serials cataloging last time > I > poked at it, but, I've started looking at it again and wondered if you > could help. > > The time has come to seriously consider adding both multi-volume works and > serials cataloging to Open Library, and knowing that it's a notorious > cataloging > issue, I wanted to reach out to learn from your experience and insight on > this > issue. > > I've been doing a survey of somewhat random journals (ones I like + > science-y + > literary + bookshop visual scans) to see if I can isolate any consistent > fields. > Along with the recent "Minimum Viable Record" post I did on the OL blog > [1], I'm > searching for a minimum set of fields we could enlist to describe serials > somewhat generically. Seems like there are: Title, Date, Volume, Issue, but > non > of these are used consistently, as I'm sure you're aware. > > I've looked at the LoC Serials Cataloging Issues site [2], which is uber > technical. I did however find a useful "Catalogers Cheat Sheet" (PDF) which > was > a good overview of MARC handling stuff [3]. > > So, I'm wondering if any of you happen to be serials cataloger, or know of > anyone who might be interested to talk with Open Library about how we might > do > this well... Or, if you know any useful web-based resources, I'd love > links! > > Cheers, > george > > [1] http://blog.openlibrary.org/2011/04/11/minimum-viable-record/ > [2] http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/issues.html > [3] PDF: http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/pdf/CheatSheetforCSR.pdf > _______________________________________________ > 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] >
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