Tom Johnson and I have been working on a project which has led me to 
understand that the subject heading "protected daisy" is absolutely 
useless. , e.g. :

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15292640W/Metamorphoses

Here's how it happened:
"Protected Daisy" was added to the subject field of appropriate edition 
records. Then, when Works were created, subjects were moved to the work 
level. There was no way to separate out terms or phrases that were 
specific to the edition -- e.g. that weren't really *subjects*. So 
somewhere in that mass of Metamorphosis records there is a protected 
daisy book:

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL15601615M/The_metamorphoses_of_Ovid

Because the phrase was added as a subject heading, it now pulls up all 
editions of that work and there is not a way to find only the protected 
daisy editions (AFAIK). (Can I give a big I TOLD YOU SO here? Mixing 
item or edition specific non-subject info into the subject field was 
something I argued against.)

I haven't yet figured out what the algorithm is for deciding to put the 
little "lock" by the Daisy link, much less what directs you to the login 
page for the protected Daisy's, so if anyone wants to hunt that down, 
Tom and I will be needing it at some point.

Also, it would be interesting to know how many protected DAISY books 
there really are, and how often they are accessed.

kc

On 3/17/13 12:26 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
> Anyone know what's going on with this edition:
> http://openlibrary.org/books/ia:historyofjewelle00evan/A_history_of_jewellery_1100-1870
>
> The Internet Archive record has the author listed if you click through,
> but this didn't get imported, and it's not linked to either of the works
> records which match.
>
> Strangely one of the works has the Protected DAISY "subject" tag, even
> though it's not linked to any epub editions.
>
> What's the best thing to do with anomalies?  Just file a bug report?
>
> Tom
>
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