On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Digitizing a book and knowing what book it is, is what > the Internet Archive and OpenLibrary do. I would have > wanted them to also know which articles/chapters are > in each book, i.e. to add mark-up equivalent to the > table of contents, especially when each chapter has its > own author.
Seems vary rare and when I have mentioned it before to library types they scoff and say why bother very odd reaction when the customer needs to find something. They seem to have the attitude that finding a title is enough or that SEPARATE biliographies are the answer. I do get the occasional nice comment. I have treated the two volume set to the full treatment in my system for authors and the chapters http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=BK119 http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=BK120 but not scanned anything nor catalogued the illustrations > > But next to a book's printed table of contents one often > finds a list of illustrations. They can be woodcuts of > famous paintings, they can be made by different artists, > have titles of their own, depicting various scenes that > would be nice if one could search for. The following book has a lot of drawings for steam engine parts from famous makers and includes some nice advertising for the period so I catalogued it a different way http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=BK2665 Heres is a scanned as well as catalogued technical publication for a car by Joseph Lucas Ltd http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=tp1 here I concentrate on part numbers as that is what an owner of a vintage car will be searching for. Here the book had nice pictures of early computer work http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=BK410 so indexed and scanned This book has important articles for the period so it its contents and authors were catalogued http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv13.php?searchstr=BK2432 > > Are there any digitization projects (or library projects) > that carefully index the illustrations found in books, > i.e. that reconstruct the list of illustrations in digital > markup? My little collection but Im a one man band and it takes years to do. and as yet I dont see how my level of detail can fit in MARC records so it lives in a relational database. I operate a scan on request for digitisation so it is a rolling project to get them all done. Dave Caroline (archivist on IRC) _______________________________________________ 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]
