On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > I think most of them are cataloged.
Actually, let me restate that. I think most of the printed editions from which the Project Gutenberg were transcribed have been cataloged, but the transcriptions should probably (certainly?) be considered editions in their own right. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:07 PM, George Oates <[email protected]> wrote: > We went through the process of ingesting all of PG earlier this year, into > Internet Archive: > > http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Agutenberg > > But, we haven't connected those to OL, yet. I'm not sure it's as simple a matter as just "connecting" because the PG metadata is often pretty sparse, so to do a halfway decent job of cataloging, you'd probably need to manually read the title page of the text (if present in the transcription) and extract publication dates & places, etc. In earlier transcriptions, I think PG explicitly left out edition info, so there'd be no way to tie the e-text back to the original printed edition at all. If you look at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31061.rdf, all it contains is the author, the title, and a statement that the work is "public domain" -- no copyright dates, publication dates, etc, so there's no automated way to tell that it's this edition http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14801590M/A_history_of_mathematics. that PG transcribed. You'd also need to figure out which of the works to connect to http://openlibrary.org/search?q=a+history+of+mathematics&author_key=OL316652A An additional complication is that, rather ironically, Project Gutenberg is claiming copyright on the bibliographic data they do have and only license it under GPL which isn't compatible with OpenLibrary's licensing. I have a hard time seeing them winning the argument that a book's title and author are copyrightable facts, but stranger things have happened. I think it'd be great to see this happen, but I suspect it'll be a non-trivial task. Tom _______________________________________________ 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]
