For those interested, I (only) recently found the thesaurus of old people, printers/publishers, geographic names and organisations in Europe by the Consortium of European Research Libraries [0]. It doesn't allow direct edits from anyone, but it does expose RDF :)
Francis Grove is listed as a bookseller: http://thesaurus.cerl.org/cgi-bin/record.pl?rid=cni00022311 [0] http://thesaurus.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl Ben On 16 August 2013 09:23, Ben Companjen <bencompan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just created GitHub issue 200 that covers publisher authorities: > https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/200 > > It's not as easy as it looks, I think, because selecting the correct > authority (like you select an author in editing a work) requires a > Solr engine for the publisher names. And to build an authority file we > need rules (what is a publisher? do we want "printed by ..." to count > as publisher, or will we create a printer authority as well, while > we're at it?) > The "add a field to records" part is trivial for OpenLibrary. > > Regards, > > Ben > > > On 16 August 2013 05:03, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote: >> The discussion that I am aware of has taken place around the BIBFRAME >> project: >> http://bibframe.org >> >> Look in the articles about authorities. >> >> kc >> >> On 8/16/13 10:16 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> This would be really wonderful. Many people find authority files such >>> as this a joy to contribute to. Is some of this discussion public? >>> >>> SJ >>> >> >> -- >> Karen Coyle >> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net >> ph: 1-510-540-7596 >> m: 1-510-435-8234 >> skype: kcoylenet >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
