Hi Stefan, Comments are inline.
On 10 October 2013 20:51, Stefan Wurzinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, ... and girls ;) > > thank you again for your help, I'm really happy about it! > I have another question and I hope it's the last one :) I hope it isn't your last question, but I do hope I can answer your question. We are mostly people who are users, just like you. A couple of people have (had) stronger ties with the Open Library, but the rest is just interested in OL's technical stuff. > > Is there any information about the genre of a book? > I saw that there is many information about a book like author, pages, > publisher, weight etc. but I didn't found the genre. Is there such an > information? No, there is no globally defined set of genres for all books in OL. However, some 1.3 million editions (of ~25 million in total) have a "genres" field, which is displayed, but cannot be edited via the web interface. I think "novel", "dictionary" are values used in this field. Possible more useful, although different from what you probably call "genre", are the classifications and subjects. Since a lot of data came from libraries, the books may have a classification from the Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal Classification scheme. These schemes (see [1] and [2]) have classes for reference works, literature and other types of works by general topic. Subject in OL are freeform: next to the topics of works (classifications are - strangely enough - assigned to Ediitions, subjects to Works), these are used to indicate e.g. availability for loan. There are works with subjects "dictionary" or "novel", although they are few. Did this help? :) Regards, Ben [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification > > Best regards and thanks in advance > Stefan Wurzinger > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > 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 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
