Re: OpenBook use of Books API, and missing elements ...

The elements I cannot get back are: series, edition, copyright date (not same as publish date), genre, URIs, purchase URIs, download URIs, first sentence, and notes.

It is a challenge to find book records with just those items, so for OpenBook version 2, I tested the return of elements by temporarily adding them to a  book record using the old web interface. The response included all of the above.

For the current OpenBook version 3, I am using the new web interface. I cannot find a place to enter series, edition, copyright date, or genre. I'm guessing some of these, e.g., edition, have changed due to your FRBR changes.

For example, for  "Slow Reading", I added the following test elements:

About = "test description"
Excerpt = "test excerpt"
First sentence = "test first sentence"
Web resources = author's home page, "http://johnmiedema.ca"

Here's the link for the response: http://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780980200447&callback=x&details=true

Search for the word "test" -- is not found.
Search for "http://johnmiedema.ca" -- not found

(cc'ing the Open Library tech list on this thread)


Anand Chitipothu wrote:
[...]
  
Some Display Elements Missing in New API. This API seems to be missing
a few display elements, e.g., series, edition, and genre. It is also
missing some elements that appear to be in transition, e.g., first
sentence, notes, URI lists. I don’t think these display elements were
getting much use so unless someone squawks, I’m not going to worry
about it. I will updated the wiki when I’m done development.
    

Can you show an example where these things are missing?


  
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