On 5/3/12 4:35 PM, Ben Companjen wrote:
>> 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. > > Wait a minute... My statistics script caught a couple of OL IDs of > volumes, e.g. /books/OL13439942M/v1. It redirects to > <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL13439942M/The_ingenious_gentleman_Don_Quixote_of_La_Mancha>, > which in the right column shows links to all separate volumes. So it > is possible! It seems AnandBot may have linked the files to the record > in 2009. > The JSON view<http://openlibrary.org/books/OL13439942M.json> shows > how these links are stored: under the key "volumes", as a list of > /type/volume objects. > It's likely then, that there are 26 editions with links to multiple volumes. That's a great find! Perhaps Anand can explain whether this could be done over the rest of OL. It might fix a lot of errors. kc > >> 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. > > Well, Open Library is a wiki. If there were some pages editable by > common users, we could make a start. Or write the whole thing. I > wouldn't know for sure what the best way to get "the community" > involved in helping to write documentation. > > Ben >> >> 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] > -- 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]
