Yes, the multi-volume book "problem" appears a handful of times in the bug list. We've talked about various solutions, including using the Table of Contents as a way to link the volumes to the bibliographic data. It's tricky because the Archive treats them as separate items since each one results in a separate digital file.
At the moment there isn't a way (AFAIK) to link an entry in the archive to a volume listed in the ToC, so I don't know of a way to connect up v. 2 of the work to the digital file for v. 2. Has anyone added multiple Archive identifiers for multi-volume works on a single edition record? There wouldn't be a one-to-one link between the individual volumes and the correct identifier, but at least they'd be on the same edition record. Anyway, this is a known problem, and possibly one for which there isn't yet a good solution. kc Quoting Steve Thomas <stephen.tho...@adelaide.edu.au>: > Hi, > > I'm looking at works in archive.org, and I see that the catalogue records > for multi-volume works includes a separate record for each volume, typically > without a volume number. > > E.g. > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL20752W/Works_containing_additional_letters_tracts_and_poems_not_hitherto_published > > <http://openlibrary.org/works/OL20752W/Works_containing_additional_letters_tracts_and_poems_not_hitherto_published>where > it looks like there are multiple editions, when in fact they are (almost) > all separate volumes of the same edition. > > There's nowhere in Edit that lets me add a volume number, which means that a > user would have to open each volume separately to find out which volume it > is. > > Obviously, best practice would be to have all volumes listed as items under > a single title, but it doesn't look like OL is set up for that. > > Next best would be to include the volume number in the title, to distinguish > them. > > Thoughts? > > Steve > > -- > > Stephen Thomas, > Senior Systems Analyst, > Barr Smith Library > UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005 AUSTRALIA > Phone: +61 8 830 35190 / Mobile: 0402 069 087 / Fax: +61 8 830 34369 > Email: stephen.tho...@adelaide.edu.au > URL: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/stephen.thomas > CRICOS Provider Number 00123M > > Editor of ebo...@adelaide <http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/> > > [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/spotrick>[image: > LinkedIn]<http://au.linkedin.com/in/sgathomas>[image: > Flickr] <http://www.flickr.com/photos/spotrick/>[image: > Twitter]<http://twitter.com/spotrick>[image: > Delicious] <http://delicious.com/spotrick>[image: > WordPress]<http://spotrick.wordpress.com/>[image: > Google] <http://www.google.com/profiles/st3v3th0ma5#buzz> > > *Please consider the environment before printing.* > > IMPORTANT: This message may contain confidential or legally privileged > information. If you think it was sent to you by mistake, please delete all > copies and advise the sender. For the purposes of the SPAM Act 2003, this > email is authorised by The University of Adelaide. > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
