Of course, FRBR! I could have thought of that (and CiTO) :) So the thinking of relationships we might need has already been done and "only" the thinking of how to record these relationships and designing and implementing changes to the interface are left.
Are there other catalogues that show any of the FRBR work relationships? On 18 November 2012 17:21, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] _______________________________________________ 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]
