On 5/3/12 3:21 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: > > 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.
I agree. "Volume-ness" is an aspect of the creation of a physical publication, generally. So any edition would have 1 or more volumes. The difficulty seems to arise in the process of scanning. For the purposes of scanning, each physical volume becomes a scanned file. When scanning agencies haven't planned for multiple volumes, they set up their rules such that: 1 volume = 1 file = 1 metadata record = 1 edition The formula needs to be 1 edition = 1 metadata record = 1 or >1 volumes and one file per volume Just about everyone who has taken on scanning has made this same mistake (as Tom points out). OL would need to have a hierarchical layer in between editions and the files that represent volumes, but at the moment that layer doesn't exist, and there isn't a way to associate files with volumes. Somewhere there needs to be a document entitled "BEFORE YOU START SCANNING BOOKS, READ THIS!" that includes tips of this nature so we can quit making this mistake over and over. kc > > 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] -- 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]
