Am 16.08.2013 09:23, schrieb Ben Companjen: > 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?) Why not? Is it not common OpenLibrary practice to have a lot of fields and depending on the user and the quality of data documented in the book itself, more or less are filled in?
> The "add a field to records" part is trivial for OpenLibrary. > You mean you could do it? Or trivial in the sense that it would take few minutes of work but isn't likely to happen? I don't wanna sound cynical. I really don't. Sorry about that. xan _______________________________________________ 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
