This seems like it's probably not related to the edition which is not linked to the work and has no author, so I'm starting a separate thread.
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Presumably the same is also true of: Translations into English, Translations into Italian, Translations into French, Illustrations, Translations into German, Readers, Translations, Translating into French [sic], Translations into Danish, Translations from Latin, Translations into Spanish, Translations into Russian, Sources, Calendar, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, In library, Miniature books, What I don't understand is why one would go to the trouble of separating out certain types of subjects, e.g.: PEOPLE Ovid (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D), Barthélemy Aneau (d. 1561), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Ambrosius Metzger, Virgil, Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) PLACES Constanța, Romania, Rome and then mix in a bunch of random tags. Surely if you have three categories, a fourth called "tags" or something isn't that hard. 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. > Greping for "encrypted" gave me some likely looking hits and "daisy" produced a ton more. If you guys need help, I'd be happy to look into it further. > Also, it would be interesting to know how many protected DAISY books > there really are, and how often they are accessed. Download counts are going to have to come from Anand or someone with access to this stats/logs. Tom
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