I wonder if, rather than creating a new IA item, we should just link the
original IA item to the DjVu on Commons (via a review)? Or is there a
discoverability benefit to be had by having the DjVu also on IA?




On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, at 07:07 AM, Sam Wilson wrote:

> Good idea. I guess it's not ideal to end up with two items, but at
> least the 2nd will be updateable from our end.
> 

> It looks like we can add HTML links to IA reviews too, which is nice:
> https://archive.org/details/spinoza_etica_paravia
> 

> 

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, at 11:52 PM, Alex Brollo wrote:

>> Done :-)

>> 

>> Alex

>> 

>> 2017-01-02 16:49 GMT+01:00 Alex Brollo <[email protected]>:

>>> Please take a look to
>>> https://archive.org/details/spinoza_etica_paravia_djvu, this is
>>> precisely a djvu-only item that I uploaded some days ago. I asked
>>> for permission to create "djvu-only items" into IA forum and I got
>>> it; this is the fiirst item I created; as you see there's some
>>> "implicit convention" too (the name of item is the original one + a
>>> _djvu suffix: it has been derived from
>>> https://archive.org/details/spinoza_etica_paravia) and metadata are
>>> the same, but a standard warning "Derived from files into
>>> L'Etica[1]" into the description field.
>>> 

>>> So far I did not do the last step, t.i. adding a "backlink" from
>>> original item to the derived one.
>>> 

>>> internetarchive.py allows to automatize the whole work (to download
>>> metadata of source item, to build the new item name and to add the
>>> warning do description field and to upload the new item).
>>> 

>>> 

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Links:

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