Quoting James Weinheimer <weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com>:
Why did you choose that structure? Is it a more efficient use of
computer resources?
To begin with, I'm just an observer of the Open Library development,
not a designer, so I can't give any detail on the WHY of things. You
can, however, see the guts by going to
http://openlibrary.org/type/
This is a list of all of the structures and data elements. The two
most relevant here are:
http://openlibrary.org/type/edition -- the manifestation/expression
http://openlibrary.org/type/work -- the work
There are links in each to the other, as you can see there. Obviously,
how you handle the links will depend on your database management
system and your record structure and the flow of search and display.
The use of uniform titles that I demonstrated is part of the
application that merges editions into works. That is buried somewhere
in the github repo:
https://github.com/openlibrary
Finding particular areas of the code isn't easy, but if you want that
kind of thing, it's all there. My guess is that it's somewhere in this
path:
https://github.com/openlibrary/openlibrary/tree/master/openlibrary/catalog/works
Enjoy!
kc
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