On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Not in OL, I wouldn't think. There is the whole "anthologies" issue that > has FRBR-thinkers tying their brains in knots - where a book is > published with multiple works inside, and each of those works gets a > work record. But OL simply treats the book itself, regardless of how > many theoretical works it may contain, as representing a single work. > > I'm worried that many of the links in OL, whether between works and > editions, or authors and works, or variant forms of author names, seem > to be in error. And this is a difficult kind of error to correct. Or, > with my most optimistic hat on, is it not? I'd love to hear such good news. > It turns out that there are only 170 editions with multiple works, so that would be tractable to even clean up by hand. As to the general question of correcting links, it really depends what the problem is. The database isn't fully linked. editions are linked to authors, works, and subjects works are linked to subjects and authors - but not editions subjects are linked to works authors aren't linked to anything (but do include a list of alternative names) Everything else is generated dynamically using search e.g. works & editions by an author, editions of a work, etc. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Anand Chitipothu <an...@archive.org> wrote: > > When we started, we made edition.works a list so that we may have editions > belonging to multiple works, but never used it in practice. This one looks > like an error caused by a bot. > > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23070031M/Cardcaptor_Sakura_Volume_5.?b=2&a=1&_compare=Compare&m=diff > Weird. It looks like the bot created one work Dec. 10, the next Dec. 14, and then on Dec. 15 linked the edition to both of them. Since there are only a handful of them, it's not a big deal. They'd also get automatically cleaned up as part of any works deduplication processs, if we ever make it that far down the cleanup road. Tom
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