On 22 Jul 2010, at 00:30, David Goodman wrote: > Why would anyone cite this particular edition?
Either because it's the copy they have in their hand, or because they're talking about the material/cultural conditions surrounding it. (Significant differences from other editions, things special about who/when/why/how it was published, knowledge that a copy of this edition was used by a particular person at a particular time.) > It's not the first ed., > which is, I think, > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23411638M/inland_voyage. > > it's not even the first american edition. It's not a standard > scholarly edition. It's not an earlier collected edition. It's not an > edition which is currently in print. What's more, it's a defective > record, because the date on the displayed cover does not match the > date of the edition on the catalog record--which is the date on the > title page of the actual copy scanned, which does not have the > original cover. The cover was selected by an automatic algorithm, > which got it wrong. Funny, the cover that I'm looking at matches the title page internet archive edition: http://www.archive.org/stream/inlandvoyage01stev#page/n13/mode/2up And all the dates I'm seeing (title page, 'published' data, catalog dates) say 1878. > > If we're going to standardize citations, we should standardize a > correct record to an appropriate version, not any version that happens > along. Of course, that's considerably harder. Mostly it's hard to know what "appropriate" means. To know whether two things are the same or different, we need to know the purpose/intended use. > But I dod not see the > point of setting up an elaborate system based on bad data. . -Jodi > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Edward Betts <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL17963918M/An_inland_voyage > > > > -- > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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