I was going to suggest putting the number of the volume in the Series field, but after reading back in the archives (e.g. [1]) and looking up definitions of volume I see the difference between series and volumes and think they shouldn't be mixed up. There is information on volumes in the data (in edition records: 1x "volume_number", 26x "volumes"; no keys like these in work records) and there is a type "/type/volume" [2], although I have no idea how that is supposed to be used.
English Wikipedia's compact definition of volume [3] doesn't really help me understand the concept, but following the Dutch definition [4] and Karen's explanation in [1], I think volumes should be parts of editions. All volumes together are one edition of a work. Another edition may have the content in a single volume. Perhaps the /type/volume can somehow be used to store the information about each volume (volume title, physical aspects)? Ben (still not a librarian) [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00242.html [2] http://openlibrary.org/type/volume [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_%28publishing%29 [4] http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_%28fysieke_informatiedrager%29 On 3 May 2012 21:26, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > This record http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15528638W/Tietosanakirja > has the title "Tietosanakirja", but it is volume 11 of that work. > > This record was created from a book scanned by the Internet Archive, > http://archive.org/details/tietosanakirja11bons > and there is only the number "11" in the URL that indicates this > is one of many volumes of a work. > > Does the OpenLibrary now have a way to create a record for the work, > and connect together the records for each of the 11 volumes? I.e. > is there a "part of" relationship between OpenLibrary records? > > I think I asked the same question in the past, but that was one or > two years ago. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
