Hi Alex, (I work at OL.)
There isn't a one-to-one mapping of scanned texts on archive.org to openlibrary.org for a few possible reasons: 1. OL doesn't yet support multi-volume works or serials 2. Texts that come into IA without a MARC record get missed in the automatic import process that exists from IA -> OL. I suspect in this case it's the second reason... There's nothing stopping you from adding a record on OL for anything, if you wish, although there are no specific cataloging parameters for things like ordinance surveys. (Microfilm, ie. smaller documents folded into a larger "umbrella" doc, aren't handled gracefully in the OL context.) The "Search Inside" feature on OL actually does index all scanned texts on IA, as well as those in OL. As we continue to add cataloging features specific to different text types into OL, the gap between the two systems will hopefully continue to close. This is an ongoing, and long term initiative. We're working right now on a new Import API, part of which is intended to allow input of practically arbitrary fields into OL, which may help with this issue. Cheers, george On 6/18/11 2:55 PM, Alex McKee wrote: > Karen, thanks for that. I agree, I'll hold off for a few days and in the > meantime I'll keep an eye on this list. > > Alex > > On 18/06/2011 16:07, Karen Coyle wrote: >> Alex, I think that's a good question, and it might be good to wait >> until someone knowledgeable at OL has a chance to debug it. I don't >> know how "search inside" works underneath, but it does seem odd that a >> book should be retrieved even though it doesn't turn up in OL. >> >> kc >> >> Quoting Alex McKee<[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi Morten, >>> >>> Thanks for the reply. I have added books before, of course, but in >>> all of those instances there was no record of the book at either the >>> Open Library or archive.org. >>> >>> In this case, the Internet Archive has a record of the book and a >>> copy of the book but no corresponding record in the Open Library. I >>> would have thought that all archive.org records had already been >>> imported into the Open Library hence my doubt about adding a new >>> record. >>> >>> I think what I was trying to ask, in a rather roundabout way, was: >>> "Why is there no record in the Open Library for this book, since the >>> IA has a record for it?" and "Will a record be created in a future >>> import of archive.org books?" and therefore "Should I add a record >>> of this book to Open Library or not?". >>> >>> >>> Alex >>> >>> On 18/06/2011 12:35, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote: >>>> On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:02:04 +0100, Alex McKee<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Found a book which appears in the Search Inside results but links to >>>>> Archive.org and doesn't seem to have a page yet on Open Library. How >>>>> should I go about adding a page for this book or indeed should I not >>>>> add one? >>>>> The book in question is: >>>>> http://www.archive.org/details/bookreferenceto09survgoog >>>>> Alex McKee >>>> Seems like something that could be useful to some people, and if the >>>> purpose of OL is one page per book, of course it is right to add it! >>>> Only question is what the question is - you have never added a book >>>> before? >>>> >>>> Yours, >>>> M >>>> __ >>>> Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér >>>> http://syntaktisk.dk * [email protected] >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Ol-discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >>>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>> >>> >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
