FRBR provides a set of relationships between works and it would be good to have links that are meaningful, not just "link." "Cites" isn't one of them, but there are citation vocabularies. If there were more lists in OL those could be mined for statistical relationships. Librarything is able to do this so they can give a small set of the most related books.
- my "cheat sheet" of FRBR relationships: http://kcoyle.net/rda/group1relsby.html it shouldn't be too hard to make a selection of a small number of these for OL use - the CITO vocabulary: http://speroni.web.cs.unibo.it/cgi-bin/lode/req.py?req=http:/purl.org/spar/cito again, a small selection might be useful kc On 11/18/12 5:22 AM, Ben Companjen wrote: > 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] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
