Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 29 Mar 2010 to 30 Mar 2010 (#2010-78)
Quoting Emily Lynema : What seems like would make more sense for us is to link to a Work record in Open Library or Internet Archive which can then direct users to all volumes digitized for that Work. I searched this title in Open Library and found individual results for the various years of the journal, so it didn't seem like that kind of aggregated record was being exposed to users at this point. See here for an example: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=polytechnisches+Journal Interesting idea, Emily. In general it makes sense, but a few caveats: 1) Open Library does not *consciously* take in non-monographs. Some do slip in, but it is intended to be a Books database 2) Multi-volume items are a general problem because they end up looking like duplicate entries (each is represented by the same bibliographic data), and I fear that some may be lost during de-duping. OL has it on its list of "things to fix". Right now, the record format doesn't have a place to link a digital file to a volume number within a "Manifestation" level record. (And I fear that in some cases the volume numbers may not have been retained in the metadata. *sigh*) kc Do you think a Work record page in Open Library that we could link to from our local systems would be an effective solution to this problem? Anybody have other ideas? -emiliy CODE4LIB automatic digest system wrote: -- Date:Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:22:41 -0700 From:Karen Coyle Subject: Works API Open Library now has Works defined, and is looking to develop an API for their retrieval. It makes obvious sense that when a Work is retrieved via the API, that the data output would include links to the Editions that link to that Work. Here are a few possible options: 1) Retrieve Work information (author, title, subjects, possibly reviews, descriptions, first lines) alone 2) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers for all related Editions 3) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers + any other identifiers related to the Edition (ISBN, OCLC#, LCCN) 4) Retrieve Work information and links to Editions with full text / scans Well, you can see where I'm going with this. What would be useful? kc -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 29 Mar 2010 to 30 Mar 2010 (#2010-78)
Karen, This doesn't relate to the API specifically, but I'm very interested in the statement, "Open Library now has Works defined." We've just recently encountered issues loading OCA records for journals we've scanned back into our local ILS, because we have to add an 856 for each journal volume that was scanned to the parent bibliographic record (in the most recent case, we had something like 160 856 fields in the record, which our ILS objected to). As in institution, we're not particularly interested in creating locally hosted splash pages for this digitized content. What seems like would make more sense for us is to link to a Work record in Open Library or Internet Archive which can then direct users to all volumes digitized for that Work. I searched this title in Open Library and found individual results for the various years of the journal, so it didn't seem like that kind of aggregated record was being exposed to users at this point. See here for an example: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=polytechnisches+Journal Do you think a Work record page in Open Library that we could link to from our local systems would be an effective solution to this problem? Anybody have other ideas? -emiliy CODE4LIB automatic digest system wrote: -- Date:Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:22:41 -0700 From:Karen Coyle Subject: Works API Open Library now has Works defined, and is looking to develop an API for their retrieval. It makes obvious sense that when a Work is retrieved via the API, that the data output would include links to the Editions that link to that Work. Here are a few possible options: 1) Retrieve Work information (author, title, subjects, possibly reviews, descriptions, first lines) alone 2) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers for all related Editions 3) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers + any other identifiers related to the Edition (ISBN, OCLC#, LCCN) 4) Retrieve Work information and links to Editions with full text / scans Well, you can see where I'm going with this. What would be useful? kc -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
