On 08/16/2013 03:28 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Determining the actual > identity of the publisher may take considerable time. For this reason, > one generally simply records what is written on the book.
Yes, this seems to be standard library practice. However, it would be a good project to go beyond this and start to document the history of publishers and imprints. OpenLibrary could have been that project. Now it isn't. In some instances, I have written articles in Wikipedia about publishers or longer series of publications. For Swedish publishers this is something I can get away with in the Swedish language Wikipedia, but I can't promise that you can do the same in the English Wikipedia. Here are two examples (in Swedish), http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk%C3%A5netryckeriets_f%C3%B6rlag http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoglunds_bokf%C3%B6rlag -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ 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]
