Hi Raymond, That's a bug. The theory is that every edition will belong to a work, but there are some stragglers.
g On 9/13/11 6:38 PM, Raymond Yee wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question about the relationship between editions and works in > OL. My impression was that every edition would correspond to a work > (i.e., there would be no work-less editions). However, if you consider > the example > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23919332M/The_letters_of_Sylvia_Beach > > and look at > http://openlibrary.org/api/volumes/brief/olid/OL23919332M.json you > won't find any 'works' key. (This is also true at > http://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780231145367&jscmd=details&format=json) > > Is this a 'feature' or a 'bug'? In other words, is there supposed to a > work corresponding to this edition? My read of > https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary/+bug/595347 is that this is a bug > and that every edition should correspond to a work. Is that right? > > Thanks, > -Raymond > _______________________________________________ > 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]
