[ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread James Bridle
Ruminating on this, and data harmonisation: http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/03/14/1up-the-importance-of-platforms-and-how-we%E2%80%99re-extending-ours/ I'm working with/on a number of projects that involve grouping editions into works in one way or another, and in each of them I'm encouraging

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Frankie Roberto
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: Being able to add third party identifiers for works would be great. I can't currently see a way of doing that? I see a links tab on the Work edit page that lets you add links with a URL and a display string. Is that what

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Richard Light
In message AANLkTi=s58otwk+-pi5q-o8mmnjfxsm3tnglxosdu...@mail.gmail.com, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com writes I see a links tab on the Work edit page that lets you add links with a URL and a display string. Is that what you need? Not quite - a URL isn't always the same as an

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Richard Light rich...@light.demon.co.uk: In message AANLkTi=s58otwk+-pi5q-o8mmnjfxsm3tnglxosdu...@mail.gmail.com, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com writes I see a links tab on the Work edit page that lets you add links with a URL and a display string. Is that what you

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: Quoting Richard Light rich...@light.demon.co.uk: In message AANLkTi=s58otwk+-pi5q-o8mmnjfxsm3tnglxosdu...@mail.gmail.com, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com writes  I see a links tab on the Work edit page that

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Alan Millar
I also see that somebody added Amazon ASIN# to the bottom of the list of identifier types in OL.  This is in addition to Amazon.com, amazon.ca, amazon uk, and a few others listed near the top of the list.  Which admittedly are a little ambiguous, but I wonder if there already some ASINs under

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Richard Light
In message 20110315080601.12801fufaa1mu...@kcoyle.net, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net writes Quoting Richard Light rich...@light.demon.co.uk: Not quite - a URL isn't always the same as an identifier (eg a LibraryThing id).  I've used this to add a few Wikipedia URLs though. Yes, ideally we

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread James Bridle
Hmm, even Amazon doesn't seem consistent on the ASINs. These work: http://www.amazon.com/blah/dp/B001IKJLK6 http://www.amazon.co.uk/blah/dp/B001IKJLK6 but this does not: http://www.amazon.ca/blah/dp/B001IKJLK6 Strange. That's because that title isn't available in Canada. (Are

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Lee Passey
On 3/15/2011 9:06 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: Quoting Richard Lightrich...@light.demon.co.uk: In message AANLkTi=s58otwk+-pi5q-o8mmnjfxsm3tnglxosdu...@mail.gmail.com, Frankie Robertofran...@frankieroberto.com writes I see a links tab on the Work edit page that lets you add links with a

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Edward Betts
On 03/15/2011 05:30 AM, Frankie Roberto wrote: Being able to add third party identifiers for works would be great. I can't currently see a way of doing that? Right now there are no identifiers associated with works. It sounds like there is a demand for them, I'm keen that we add them.

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Lee Passey
On 3/15/2011 5:00 PM, Richard Light wrote: In message4d7fe6ff.1050...@novomail.net, Lee Passey l...@novomail.net writes /No/ link is an identifier, except coincidentally. Whoever suggested that URLs could be identifiers, and that URIs should look like URLs but not be locaters should be

Re: [ol-discuss] Book ID harmonisation

2011-03-15 Thread Lee Passey
On 3/15/2011 6:22 AM, James Bridle wrote:. Personally, I think the future of reading is too fragmented to rely on or possibly care about edition IDs like ISBNs: these are essentially commercial SKUs for businesses. The interesting future is in identifying works, and there's going to be a lot