On 22 Jul 2010, at 00:30, David Goodman wrote:
Why would anyone cite this particular edition?
Either because it's the copy they have in their hand, or because they're talking
about the material/cultural conditions surrounding it. (Significant differences from other
editions, things special about who/when/why/how it was published, knowledge that a copy of
this edition was used by a particular person at a particular time.)
It's not the first ed.,
which is, I think,
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23411638M/inland_voyage.
it's not even the first american edition. It's not a standard
scholarly edition. It's not an earlier collected edition. It's not an
edition which is currently in print. What's more, it's a defective
record, because the date on the displayed cover does not match the
date of the edition on the catalog record--which is the date on the
title page of the actual copy scanned, which does not have the
original cover. The cover was selected by an automatic algorithm,
which got it wrong.
Funny, the cover that I'm looking at matches the title page internet archive edition:
http://www.archive.org/stream/inlandvoyage01stev#page/n13/mode/2up
And all the dates I'm seeing (title page, 'published' data, catalog dates) say
1878.
If we're going to standardize citations, we should standardize a
correct record to an appropriate version, not any version that happens
along. Of course, that's considerably harder.
Mostly it's hard to know what "appropriate" means. To know whether two
things are the same or different, we need to know the purpose/intended use.
But I dod not see the
point of setting up an elaborate system based on bad data. .
-Jodi
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Edward Betts <edward(a)archive.org> wrote:
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
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