Hi George,

Thanks for your quick answer.  Is there anything we OL users can do when
we encounter workless editions? 

-Raymond

On 9/14/11 12:46 PM, George Oates wrote:
> 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
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