Hi all, As a novice book cataloguer, I'm wondering if there are any guidelines saying how unique a book must/should be to be called a separate edition. Currently I'm wondering if I use should add another edition of "Languages and machines" that is exactly like http://openlibrary.org/books/OL814068M/Languages_and_machines, except that my Item has the text "Reprinted with corrections, January 1998". In general, is a reprint a different edition (if you can tell them apart by looking at X in "Xth print")? Hypothetically, what if one batch of books has a typo on the cover and the next batch hasn't, making the typo the only noticeable difference?
Regards, Ben P.S. I have been a Discogs.com user/cataloguer for quite some years and know the rules more or less by heart, but most things I don't know can be looked up in the Submission Guidelines. It's not that adding books to OL is hard, but I've become used to "looking it up in the Guidelines" or forums and if all else fails, then start asking. OL puts me straight through to the mailing lists. Should I have asked this question here, or on the librarianship list, by the way? E.g. guidelines for determining whether a release is unique are here: http://www.discogs.com/help/submission-guidelines-general-rules.html#Unique_Releases _______________________________________________ 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]
