I haven't been around since the beginning of Open Library, but I have come across more Editions without Work like this one. It doesn't show up on the author's page.
There may have been a time when no(t all) newly imported Edition got a work. If you now edit a book that has no work, a work is created. Oh, I agree that all editions should have a work. I was planning on creating a list of (possibly) duplicate editions like the ones for authors and works, but from the general statistics of April's dump I can tell there are 19,352,730 editions with a field "works" in their records, of 24,716,208 editions in total. That's 5,363,478 records without works field. The fields may still be empty, I didn't count that. Less than in Ross's count, but still 21.7%. Ben On 21 May 2012 19:05, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > Should all editions have a work? This edition doesn't appear to have any > work: > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL5204939M/The_complete_old_English_sheepdog > > and, perhaps because of this, can't be found by search: > > http://openlibrary.org/search?q=complete+old+english+sheepdog > > Is every edition supposed to have a work created for it or are works > only created if there are multiple editions? > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > 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]
