Comments on: Open Library, really open. Aaron Swartz discusses.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:36:53 +0000

@anarchivist: no joke! As someone who has the same name as a published author, and as a published author myself, I always think of how Amazon.com lumps our books together and, to my face at a lirbary conference, called this a “feature”

By: Isabelle Fetherston

Isabelle Fetherston — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:36:08 +0000

I recommended this post to the “uncontrolled vocabulary” library podcast for discussion (by tagging it “unvocab” on delicious). They may choose to talk about it. If so, it should be an interesting discussion. I would like all catalog records to be shared online. However, someone will still have to be paid to create these records. Perhaps the publishers could hire librarians to catalog their books and provide this information online. They already provide “Cataloging in print”, but this data is not considered to be “reliable data” (from Library Technical services of Cornell Univ.).

By: Anarchivist

Anarchivist — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:46:34 +0000

Best line ever: “Some data is unambiguous. Author names should be unambiguous.”
Ah, they should be.
If only they were!