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Quoting Emily Lynema <[log in to unmask]>: > 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 <[log in to unmask]> >> 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 > [log in to unmask] -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet