Ok, I have a followup on this. I've made an analogous web service to OCLC's X-Identifier or LibraryThing's ThingISBN with Open Library's data:
http://ol-identifier.heroku.com/ One of the things that becomes apparent with this is how many duplicate editions there are (multiple "owl:sameAs"es means the identifier in question appears in multiple records): http://ol-identifier.heroku.com/oclc/792033: <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ol-identifier.heroku.com/oclc/792033";> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL14464770M"/> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24210371M"/> </rdf:Description> http://ol-identifier.heroku.com/isbn/006251587X: <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ol-identifier.heroku.com/isbn/006251587X";> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22359132M"/> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL9245413M"/> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL38986M"/> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7290708M"/> </rdf:Description> http://ol-identifier.heroku.com/lccn/00004240: <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ol-identifier.heroku.com/lccn/00004240";> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23358959M"/> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6774976M"/> </rdf:Description> So, my question would be, do editions get merged? If so, is there some log of these merges? By the way, I should have something to show with a feed of deprecated work IDs tomorrow. Thanks! -Ross. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Ross Singer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Edward Betts <[email protected]> wrote: >> It doesn't create a new work, it uses ID of the existing work with the >> most editions. If there is a draw it picks the lowest work ID. >> >> The other works get turned into redirects to the chosen work. >> > Ok, good -- the redirect is a good safety net, if nothing else. > >> The changes are also visible here: http://openlibrary.org/people/WorkBot >> >>> Is there a way to track the changes to the Work identifiers? The API >>> only seems to show the edition ids. >> >> We don't have a good feed for watching the changes to work identifiers. >> What would you use the feed for? >> > Well, it would be a lot easier to update anything with the old work id > to use the new one than to match every edition identifier and change > it. In the end, though, it's not a huge deal. > >> Currently it is only WorkBot that is merging works, in the future we'll >> let humans do it as well, as we build that feature we can include a feed >> of merged works. >> > Good to know! > > Thanks for all of the pointers, > -Ross. > _______________________________________________ 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]
