Now that Lee has clarified what I meant (am I that cryptic geek?) let me point out that old works frequently have editions the titles of which can differ widely, and indeed I'm looking for a way to manually help that algorithm.
However, let the example be Bürger's Münchhausen. Let's not dive into if this is really the original, simply assume it is: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24988779M This was not in OL so I created it as edition of the abstract "Münchhausen" work. Now, there are more editions I like to add to the work: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22319113M http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22050216M http://openlibrary.org/books/OL12668689M and of course I want to delete the superfluous works and editions afterwards. So how would I do it? Regards, ralf On Sep 12, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > If that's the question, then linking happens through an algorithm. I > don't remember all of the elements, but I believe that if the author > and title of your edition match the author and title of the work then > they will get linked to the work. It's a bit trickier for > translations, where the titles don't match -- in that case it may > depend on whether a linking "work title" has been included. > > It would still be good the see the particular example. > > kc > > Quoting Lee Passey <[email protected]>: > >> On Mon, September 12, 2011 10:48 am, Karen Coyle wrote: >> >>> When I click on "add edition" it leads me to a page where I can add a >>> new edition for that book. Is a new edition what you mean when you say >>> "existing" book? >> >> I think it much more likely that he is not talking about books at all, but >> about records in the OL database. The question then would be: How to >> I link an >> existing edition record to its corresponding work record? >> >> I don't believe for a minute that the OL database has accurately >> linked all of >> the edition records with their correct work records. When an end user >> discovers this kind of disconnect, how does she correct it? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] >> > > > > -- > Karen Coyle > [email protected] http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet > > _______________________________________________ > 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] Ralf Stephan http://www.ark.in-berlin.de ...."C'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." -Louis Pasteur _______________________________________________ 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]
