Hi John, Open Library is showing 2 books with ISBN 9780307387172.
http://openlibrary.org/search?q=9780307387172 The covers.openlibrary.org picks the first one with cover. Which seems to be working fine. http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9780307387172-M.jpg The OL Books API picks any one book with the matching ID. It looks like the Books API is picking the book without the cover and that is creating you the trouble. http://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:9780307387172 I searched for "9780307387172" in OL dump created on 2010-11-30 and found just one entry with 6 revisions and last modified on 2010-08-12. /type/edition /books/OL9434361M 6 2010-08-12T06:30:18.650706 {"number_of_pages": 224, "weight": "8 ounces", "covers": [1165319], "latest_revision": 6, "edition_name": "Reissue edition", "title": "Into the Wild (MTI)", "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["Discovery And Exploration (General)", "Outdoor Life", "Travel", "Biography / Autobiography", "Travel - General", "Regional Subjects - West", "Travelers", "Travel / Adventure", "Special Interest - Adventure", "Adventure and adventurers", "Alaska", "Biography", "United States", "Wayfaring life", "West (U.S.)"], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "physical_dimensions": "8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches", "revision": 6, "publishers": ["Anchor"], "physical_format": "Paperback", "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-08-12T06:30:18.650706"}, "key": "/books/OL9434361M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL237257A"}], "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-30T09:38:13.731961"}, "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["441013"], "librarything": ["1199218"]}, "isbn_13": ["9780307387172"], "isbn_10": ["0307387178"], "publish_date": "August 21, 2007", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL1974535W"}], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Jim Gallien had driven four miles out of Fairbanks when he spotted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, thumb raised high, shivering in the gray Alaska dawn."}} The dates seem to be matching with the history view. http://openlibrary.org/books/OL9434361M/Into_the_Wild_(MTI)?m=history This indicates that there is no data loss. Anand On 25-May-2011, at 6:08 PM, John Miedema wrote: > Hi George. I had an OpenBook pointer to ISBN 9780307387172 on November 11, > 2010. The record originally had no cover image for OpenBook, so I added one > and could confirm the image was there in my WordPress post using OpenBook. > I'm also certain I add an author to the record and it is also gone. It has > happened before, over a few years, and always for cover images that I > manually added. I don't often have to add new covers so I don't have many > examples, but it is always for these records. The wipe usually happens some > weeks or even months after I modified the record. Hope that helps, John > > > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM, George Oates <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Odd - There's no note of you in the edit history there... Are you sure it was > that particular edition? > > g > > On 5/23/11 8:13 PM, John Miedema wrote: > > Hi folks, I have noticed on several occasions that book covers I manually > > add > > will disappear later on. > > > > Here's one that disappeared. Can't say exactly when. > > > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24645176M/Into_The_Wild > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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] > _______________________________________________ > 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] > > > > -- > John Miedema - [email protected] - http://johnmiedema.ca - 613-366-7960 > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
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