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[ol-discuss] No archive and authority files

2013-08-15 Thread fabian
Hi, I just come to this after doing a few years on Wikipedia. UI think it is a very impoprtant project, and i love the way it generates Wikipedia citations. A couple of questions: why are the archives of this list disabled - I don't particularly want to go over old ground Also I put in a

Re: [ol-discuss] No archive and authority files

2013-08-15 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On 16-Aug-2013, at 5:58 AM, fab...@unpopular.org.uk wrote: Hi, I just come to this after doing a few years on Wikipedia. UI think it is a very impoprtant project, and i love the way it generates Wikipedia citations. A couple of questions: why are the archives of this list disabled

Re: [ol-discuss] No archive and authority files

2013-08-15 Thread Karen Coyle
Fabian, By way of explanation (but not of solution) - publisher names are not developed under authority control in the data sources that we have used. Instead, the publisher name is what is copied from the book without an attempt to normalize it. Creating authorities for publishers has many

Re: [ol-discuss] No archive and authority files

2013-08-15 Thread Samuel Klein
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: There is some discussion of adding authorities for publishers to bibliographic data, but without removing the transcription from the page. This will, however, require a new field for the publisher authority. This would be

Re: [ol-discuss] No archive and authority files

2013-08-15 Thread Karen Coyle
The discussion that I am aware of has taken place around the BIBFRAME project: http://bibframe.org Look in the articles about authorities. kc On 8/16/13 10:16 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: There is some discussion of adding