On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Karl Eichwalder <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > That doesn't tell us anything about how you'd like "book" to be defined, what type of data would be useful to you or what your use case is. Why don't you join the thread on ol-discuss and let us know what SUSE would like from OpenLibrary. Tom
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