Books which are on Internet Archive often have a link to their Open Library
entry. What is the relationship between the two sets of data? Which is
the master? How often are they synchronized?
When I look at this pair of matching records from IA OL:
Good questions, Tom. It looks like the IA page only uses the original MARC
record. I imagine that the same record was imported to OL if it hadn't been
before and that OL interprets MARC on input (discarding full names too, I
guess).
From what I read on the OL mailinglists, I can only answer the
Ben, there was a discussion that flew by me on the OL skype chat that
someone had noticed that things weren't getting updated, and I believe
that someone (Anand?) has restarted that process.
kc
On 2/1/13 2:46 PM, Ben Companjen wrote:
Good questions, Tom. It looks like the IA page only uses
Could you give an indication of when that was? Today, last week, or last
year? :)
Anand said in October (on the ol-tech list) that it would take a couple
weeks before he could get to it. If the process was indeed restarted
recently, is there any indication of how long it is going to take? (Will it
