Sorry, I forgot to answer question 3 - If you have the capability to include the title using the appropriate script, please do. OL is Unicode-compliant. Many records will use latin characters for titles and authors, and these are often from data that pre-dates Unicode, but they are also useful for searches being done from a standard keyboard.
The edit screen does not appear to allow one to input additional titles, although I don't think that the metadata format would have a problem with that. I will add this as a suggestion: add a field for "additional titles" -- this would be useful for many books whose titles can have variations. kc On 9/4/13 3:24 PM, Timothée Flutre wrote: > Hello, > > I just discovered the existence of openlibrary.org > <http://openlibrary.org> and like the project very much. So I started to > contribute but don't know what to do with translations (see an example > at the end of the email) and didn't find any info in the "help" section > of the website. > > 1) "Should" there be one page per book, with all editions, in the > original language or not, listed on the same page? I think this is > preferable as it is more practical when searching the library. > > 2) But then "should" the title of the "work" always be in English, even > if originally it was not written in this language? Here again I am in > favour of the title of the "work" being in English, but obviously the > title of each "edition" should be in its original language. > > 3) Finally, "should" then the title of each "edition" be written also in > its original script (for instance in cyrillic)? Does the current code > allow that? Here I don't have any strong opinion. > > Best, > > Tim > > ps: see for instance the page "Rivage des Syrtes" > (http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1260908W/Rivage_des_Syrtes) which only > lists two English translations whereas there exists another page, "Le > rivage des syrtes", which only lists four French editions. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- 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
