Hi Merrilee,
That is wonderful! Will there be a way to convert edition IDs into work
IDs?
At some point the book infobox should be modified to show both work and
edition info, so it is definitely useful to get ready for that.
Do you plan to run bots to import these identifiers?
Cheers,
Micru
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee <proffitm(a)oclc.org>wrote;wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you have known about this project which has been in the works for
some time – works IDs. For those of you who did know about it, they have
been released. Huzzah!
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data/worldcat-entities.en.html
For those of you who are scratching your heads and wondering why this is
important or how it might be useful, I offer you a great example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance
Right now, the convention in InfoBox Book, etc. is to note the ISBN and
other IDs associated with the first edition of a work. Although this is
useful, in an information retrieval context it is not as useful as it might
be – adding one or more work IDs to the mix would be useful because the
work ID can bring back more information about editions published in
different locations, on different dates, etc.
http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/12477503.html
I’m curious to hear what you think. Are these identifiers useful in the
Wikimedia world? Right now OCLC numbers are used, as are VIAF ids, and
Dewey numbers.
Best,
Merrilee
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