We have been struggling with where to put the volume information in the Biodiversity heritage library project. We are now providing MODs records and looking for the best place to put this information so that others can take and reuse in their local systems.
Anyone want to play with some tests to see if we can provide and you can ingest our records? Feel free to contact me off list. typed by thumbs and sent by gadget On May 3, 2012 6:51 PM, "Karen Coyle" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >
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