Hi all, (About types) I was wondering how the contributors[] field is stored within /type/edition. There is no mention at http://openlibrary.org/type/edition, but the JSON representation at e.g. http://openlibrary.org/books/OL25154702M.json shows the field (a compound type with role and name, both plain strings), and the RDF template uses the information from the field too (just the name part though).
I found out that the contributions[] field (that only has strings) contains data that come (probably) straight from the MARC records and may or may not have a role included in the string (e.g. "Ben Companjen (Editor)". The field is not displayed in the page view, but it is in the RDF and JSON views. In the complete datadump of January 31st, no edition uses the distributors[] field. I had already asked myself what it is for, but now it seems it isn't used at all. (About documentation) There is an issue on GitHub (https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/100) about documenting the datadumps, which would include these fields. Perhaps it's a good idea to start with the individual properties and types? Infogami allows a description of each type and property: http://infogami.org/quicklook. Documenting the datadumps would then be easy: just copy the applicable property descriptions. I noticed that on the http://openlibrary.org/developers page, the "Bugs" link points to the Launchpad bug tracker (which is no longer tracked). Should it be updated to point to the issues on GitHub, and should the current bugs on Launchpad be moved? And what is the status of http://code.openlibrary.org/ ? The Developers page points to this documentation through "OL Development". Is this documentation still linked to the in-code documentation? I am looking to see if I can help out with more than the RDF output, but I'm having a hard time finding out what some of the code is doing. Thanks in advance for the answers. Regards, Ben _______________________________________________ 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]
