[ol-discuss] Amazon acquires Goodreads

2013-03-31 Thread John Rigdon
. On the other hand, I think the submission of a review of a book cover to OL specifically means that anyone can use it in any way they want. John Rigdon www.researchonline.net ___ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi

Re: [ol-discuss] community pages

2013-03-22 Thread John Rigdon
Same with me. I added a stub page last nite. John Rigdon On 22/03/2013 15:56, Karen Coyle wrote: Folks, As Ben mentioned, the community pages are available. First, we need someone without any special privileges to make sure that they are editable by all. So go to http

Re: [ol-discuss] OpenLibrary's mission role - what should it be?

2013-03-16 Thread John Rigdon
and the varying formats required to do more than a messy migration of basic bibliographic citations. My hope is that OL can define and document the standards for these items and provide a seamless way for the non-technical person to utilize these tools. John Rigdon www.researchonline.net

Re: [ol-discuss] OpenLibrary's mission role - what should it be?

2013-03-16 Thread John Rigdon
to the casual browser of the title and author detail, but that isn't worth me paying Bowker $30,000. John Rigdon ___ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [ol-discuss] Data consistency policy

2013-03-13 Thread John Rigdon
This is an important issue that I have not seen addressed anywhere on the OL site. I suggest we as a group start to put together some guidelines. John Rigdon www.researchonline.net Hi everyone, after a few weeks of OL editing, I encountered some problems regarding consistency of the data I