In the TinLib (aka The Information Navigator) ILS we produced in the '80s we had the ability to "type" the links between work records (and the other two "entities" we recognized - people and subjects). We did set up some systems which incorporated just these types of links; things like "based on", or "commentary on". This was all well before FRBR, but we also had hierarchic links between what FRBR would recognize as works and manifestations and instances. All was presented to the user through a DOS interface (that dates it if nothing else) and users had to scroll a list, highlighting the link of interest, and hit return to navigate to the target record. We sold some thousands of these systems around the world, but since we stopped doing so in the late '90s, I have no idea how many still are in use, and how many of those may have the extended linking in their databases. Marshal Breeding's list of library systems might let you hunt them down, but the main point if this post is to point out it has been done and does work - users seemed to like it.
Peter Noerr > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Karen Coyle > Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 2:46 PM > To: Open Library -- technical discussion > Subject: Re: [ol-tech] Direct links between works > > Ben, I don't know of any that have implemented the FRBR relationships *yet*. > That leaves the arena > wide open, and being the first to do this would be very interesting! > > kc > > On 11/18/12 2:23 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: > > 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] > > > > -- > 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]
