solution would be develop another table/database reference to associate new requirements to tables that cannot address them.
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:05:44 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ol-tech] Alternate Script in Titles From Internet Archive > > Hi Tristan, > > I'm afraid I can't help directly, but maybe this can provide some context. > > The records in Open Library that were derived from files uploaded to > the Internet Archive are treated differently than records created via > Open Library itself. I'm still unsure whether this will change, but > the problem of matching the author names filled out on submission to > existing author records is not trivial (at all). The same goes for the > works/editions. I guess that is why it wasn't tackled from the > beginning. > > As for a solution: I don't have one. :( > > Ben > > On 24 February 2014 20:55, Tristan Chambers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > > > We have a collection in Internet Archive that we are happy to see has been > > automatically imported into Open Library. I've noticed that some titles (not > > ours) in Open Library have alternate scripts available in the titles. Ours > > however do not, even though there is such a field on the Internet Archive > > side. We're wondering how we can get the alternate script titles to show up > > in the entrees and be searchable in Open Library. Any suggestions of how I > > can correct this? On a related note, I'm not seeing the author field filled > > in on a lot of our entries in Open Library. Maybe this is something I can > > correct at the same time. > > > > > > Note how if I search for the common Hebrew word "sefer" with Hebrew > > characters I get responses back showing the title in Hebrew as well as > > transliterated into roman characters. This is the correct behavior. Upon > > clicking the entree it is evident that the Hebrew field is separate from the > > transliterated title because it's not even visible on the page. > > > > > > https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8 > > > > > > However if I search for words from one of our titles, in Hebrew characters, > > the system returns zero results. > > > > https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%D7%92%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A2+%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A2%D7%9F > > > > This is what we'd like to correct. > > > > > > Transliterated, the search term works: > > > > https://openlibrary.org/search?q=Gezamel%E1%B9%ADe+shrif%E1%B9%ADen > > > > I see our identifier nybc205988, and our title page with our name on it > > "Yiddish Book Center," so I'm sure our material is in the database. > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > Tristan Chambers > > Jr. Web Developer > > Yiddish Book Center > > Amherst, MA - USA > > yiddishbookcenter.org > > taytsh.org > > tentsite.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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]
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