Fabian, By way of explanation (but not of solution) - publisher names are not developed under authority control in the data sources that we have used. Instead, the publisher name is what is copied from the book without an attempt to normalize it.
Creating authorities for publishers has many difficulties. Often what is on the book is not the publisher but the publisher's imprint -- that is, it is not the organization but the product line. Determining the actual identity of the publisher may take considerable time. For this reason, one generally simply records what is written on the book. In addition, what is written on the book is important for identifying the book, so it would not be good to lose the information like: * for Francis Grove, and are to be sold at his shop on Snow hil near the Sarazens head without New-gate There is some discussion of adding authorities for publishers to bibliographic data, but without removing the transcription from the page. This will, however, require a new field for the publisher authority. kc On 8/16/13 8:28 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I just come to this after doing a few years on Wikipedia. > > UI think it is a very impoprtant project, and i love the way it generates > Wikipedia citations. > > A couple of questions: > > why are the archives of this list disabled - I don't particularly want to > go over old ground > > Also I put in a book published by Francis Grove, but I discovered that > this publisher is known by several different strings of letters: > > * Printed by T. & R. Cotes, for Francis Grove ... > * Printed by E. Alsop for Francis Grove ... and William Gilbertson ... > * Printed for Francis Grove (x4) > * Printed at London for Rich. Cotes, and are to be sold by Francis Grove > * for Francis Grove, dwelling upon Snow-hill > * for Francis Grove, and are to be sold at his shop on Snow hil near the > Sarazens head without New-gate > * Printed for Francis Grove, and are to be sold by Martha Harrison > * Printed by B. Alsop, and T. F[awcet] for Francis Groves dwelling on > Snow-Hill neare the Sarazens Head > > well there may even be more. > > Is there any prospect of having an authority file for such publishers as > Groves (active in London in the seventeenth century? > > all the best > > Fabian > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
