For many reasons, not the least of which is privacy, individual holdings should be recorded outside of OL. Perhaps we should look a making sure that OL interacts well with personal bibliographic software like Zotero and Mendeley (and lots of others whose names don't come to me at the moment).
kc On 3/18/13 6:47 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Ben Companjen <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > There must have been good discussions on this topic before, but I was > too lazy to search the archives [1, 2] myself. > > > One discussion of things which are not books is here in the archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00730.html > > These were apparently imported from Amazon or some other book seller who > considered anything with an ISBN to be something to be included in the > catalog, including calendars, posters, gift items, displays, etc. > > The question of personal/institutional holdings is actually related to > something I was going to start a separate thread about, but it's close > enough to include here. It affects Internet Archive "holdings" because > there are many instances of books being scanned multiple times. > > For example, if we look at this work: > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL6660701W/Margaret_Fuller we see the 1920 > edition cataloged four times -- three for IA scans and a fourth for an > extra spurious WorldCat entry which differs only in the tiniest of > punctuation: > http://www.worldcat.org/title/margaret-fuller-a-psychological-biography/oclc/21497071 > http://www.worldcat.org/title/margaret-fuller-a-psychological-biography/oclc/183791 > > It seems like this should really be a single edition record with links > to a) the three IA records and b) the two WorldCat records, but that > would require an extra level of hierarchy in the OpenLibrary model. > > Tom > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
