Hi all, Although I know the developers are mostly working on non-OL projects, I would like to share a (possibly very old) idea for enhancement of Open Library: direct links from one work to another.
It is not an original idea, as most digital libraries for scientific literature have links from articles to cited/referenced articles or book chapters. For me as a student it has become a natural way of browsing the "library". Today I wanted to look up the Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget and found not only the multiple works (which should most likely be one work) by Roget, but also "Roget's thesaurus ..." by other authors - edited versions, perhaps reviews or manuals, etc. I think being able to say "works A and B are related, because A is (a review of | a manual to | partly based on | ...) B" would be a great addition to Open Library as a catalog. (And I didn't see this idea in the list of issues on GitHub.) Ben P.S. Yes, you could add a hyperlink to the work, but if you used the label to express the relationship between works, it would only make sense to human users. _______________________________________________ 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]
