On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Colby Russell <colby.a.russ...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 09/06/2013 06:08 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > > The edit screen does not appear to allow one to input additional titles, > > although I don't think that the metadata format would have a problem > > with that. I will add this as a suggestion: add a field for "additional > > titles" -- this would be useful for many books whose titles can have > > variations. > > I know this from some edits I made yesterday: there are two fields in > Librarian Mode, one with the text "Is it known by any other titles? > (Perhaps in another language?)", and another "What's the original > book?", if you select "Yes, it's a translation". > > The whole thing is confusing to me, though. These fields are only > available on the edition's page, and not the work's page. For "Dead > Souls" <http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7084842M/Dead_Souls>, I ended up > putting the transliteration of the alternate title in both fields. I don't think what's there is adequate for this. A few of deficiencies: - the alternate titles aren't tagged with a language, so you don't know who they're appropriate to present to - the translation field is a plain text field, not a link to the work that was translated - a translation is a thing separate from a work or edition (there can be multiple editions of a single translation) The schema that Freebase uses is triangular shaped. All editions are linked to the original work, but translated editions also are linked via a separate translation node like this: https://www.freebase.com/m/078j9c2 which records a bit of information like the translators, the date of translation, etc. Two other translations of the same work: https://www.freebase.com/m/0wzdgx0 https://www.freebase.com/m/0wznvsk# The second is for the edition that Karen posted the LCCN link for (which has it's Freebase equivalent here: https://www.freebase.com/m/04vc9h0 ) Multilingual primary names are recorded here: https://www.freebase.com/m/02xs_s?i18n= Multlingual aliases are recorded here: https://www.freebase.com/m/02xs_s?props=#/common/topic/alias (the schema supports multiple languages, but the UI appears to currently assume all aliases are English, unlike the primary name) I think a similar schema would work well for Open Library. Tom
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