Alex, I think that's a good question, and it might be good to wait until someone knowledgeable at OL has a chance to debug it. I don't know how "search inside" works underneath, but it does seem odd that a book should be retrieved even though it doesn't turn up in OL.
kc Quoting Alex McKee <[email protected]>: > Hi Morten, > > Thanks for the reply. I have added books before, of course, but in > all of those instances there was no record of the book at either the > Open Library or archive.org. > > In this case, the Internet Archive has a record of the book and a > copy of the book but no corresponding record in the Open Library. I > would have thought that all archive.org records had already been > imported into the Open Library hence my doubt about adding a new > record. > > I think what I was trying to ask, in a rather roundabout way, was: > "Why is there no record in the Open Library for this book, since the > IA has a record for it?" and "Will a record be created in a future > import of archive.org books?" and therefore "Should I add a record > of this book to Open Library or not?". > > > Alex > > On 18/06/2011 12:35, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:02:04 +0100, Alex McKee<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Found a book which appears in the Search Inside results but links to >>> Archive.org and doesn't seem to have a page yet on Open Library. How >>> should I go about adding a page for this book or indeed should I not >>> add one? >>> The book in question is: >>> http://www.archive.org/details/bookreferenceto09survgoog >>> Alex McKee >> Seems like something that could be useful to some people, and if the >> purpose of OL is one page per book, of course it is right to add it! >> Only question is what the question is - you have never added a book >> before? >> >> Yours, >> M >> __ >> Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér >> http://syntaktisk.dk * [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] > > > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
