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On May 3, 2012 7:10 PM, "Suzanne Pilsk" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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/
>> >>
>> >>
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