[open-bibliography] Articles and reviews

Tue Jan 3 23:01:20 UTC 2012

Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> I'm digitizing books and sometimes journals, which sometimes contain
> book reviews. What kind of mark-up is there to indicate that this
> text here is a review of book B by author A, written by reviewer R?

Good question. We need such markup for use in BibJSON. 

> Is there any place where one can search for reviews of book B?
> Or reviews of books by A? Or reviews by R?

Yes. JSTOR is one such place for academic works.

http://dfr.jstor.org/?cs=any%3AReview&view=text&qk0=ft&qw0=1.0&qv0=Review&qf0=any

offers facets

#  Reviewed Work
#  Reviewed Author 

You might look at how this appears in the JSTOR XML export. 
I would also very much like to learn of any general markup standard for reviews.

--Jim
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University of California
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>
> As an example, here is a review of Macneill Weir: "The tragedy of
> Ramsay MacDonald", http://runeberg.org/tiden/1939/0129.html
>
> Should I just digitize the full text and be happy without mark-up?
> Is it meaningful to dig deeper into this? Is anybody doing that?
> As far as I know, neither Wikisource, Project Gutenberg, the Internet
> Archive, nor OpenLibrary are trying to do it.
>
> I could look up each book in OpenLibrary and add a user comment
> that a review of the book exists. Is that the best I can do?
> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL7639149W/The_tragedy_of_Ramsay_MacDonald
>
>
> -- 
>    Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>    Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
>
>
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