Lee Passey <[email protected]> writes:
> Right now, it appears to me that Open Book Catalog is lacking a vision
> and a visionary. Even the platitude "one web page for every book" is so
> broad as to be essentially meaningless. That is what we already have, so
> what's missing?
Unfortunately, that's not the truth. Series, Volumes of the Works of an
author, and Monographs are often deliberately mixed. And then, there
are translations of the "book". And digital faksimiles and digital
reprints (such as proofed book by the distributed proofreaders and
gutenberg.org).
We have one web page per book, but it is undefined what a book actually
is. For serious work the data we have is useless. And it looks
impossible to do cleanups. With every "import" it gets worse.
> The data may be incomplete, it may be unreliable, it may be unreusable
> for legal reasons, it may be unreusable for technical reasons, and it
> may not lead to any actual content, but hey, there /is/ one web page
> for every book!
Yes, but what's a book?
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