Hi Dan, It's a bit weird, isn't it. Confusing perhaps because we weren't tracking or displaying cover edit history before the redesign launched May 6. This edit in April:
April 13, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Linked existing covers to the edition. ... seemed to be the one that introduced the dodgy image. But, we can't tell where from. Thanks for raising this though - I hope that with improvements to the display of new covers, and general propagation of the content (yay Evergreen!), a closer look and hopefully review will occur somewhat naturally. It takes a village, after all :) Cheers, george On 9/9/10 9:12 AM, Dan Scott wrote: > A problematic book cover was mentioned in the NGC4LIB mailing list > (content of message below). > > From looking at the history of the record, the cover image was linked > automatically to the work in question. It might be worthwhile to > determine how that image made its way into the collection to be > associated with this particular work, and see if there are any other > parallel cases that could be ferreted out. (Thanks to Nicole Engard > for trashing the cover image in the current version of the record; > you'll have to go back to version 4 or 3 if you want to see the > details for the NSFW cover image). > > Quality control on this front is a bit of a concern as we've just made > OpenLibrary the default cover + table-of-content provider for > Evergreen in the Evergreen 2.0 alpha release, and we'd like to be able > to advocate building on the current relationship with more > bi-directional content support. > > """ > Hi > > Just wondering if anyone else is using OpenLibrary as a source for book > covers? > > If so, you might want to consider checking or moderating the images, > as we've just found an "interesting" book cover that probably isn't > appropriate for most library catalogues :-S > > (please note the book cover in the following link might not be > considered "safe for work"!) > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22772113M/ > > regards > Dave Pattern > University of Huddersfield > """ > > (http://serials.infomotions.com/ngc4lib/archive/2010/201009/1379.html) > _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
