I've been adding metadata for some years, now, in a slow and not very structured manner.

What I do is use the "Reviews" section, and use a standard header "bibliographical information" and give a zero star rating (for no good reason).  Like this one or this one.  Nowadays I have also taken to using the standard phrase "Worldcat permalink: " followed by the permalink URL from the corresponding Worldcat entry. Like this one.

The Reviews section does get searched, when one does a metadata search.

If you are going to start doing metadata, perhaps you should coordinate with Carl Malamud, who has an alert that pops up for him when I personally add metadata.  (Incidentally, it is Carl to whom we owe the enormous benefit of having the Digital Library of India available within Archive.org.)

Best,

Dominik

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:00 AM James Hartzell <james.hartzell@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all

Just picking up on Jonathan Silk's notion of crowdsourcing corrections to archive.org metadata:

It would be great if there were a straightforward way to correct inaccuracies in the Titles and authors of items in archive.org.  That way, each one of us, when we're searching for an item, and eventually find it (often by going through all the items that come up from the search until we finally find the correct one), we could simply correct the errors at that time. This wouldn't take much extra time,

I can't create such a fix myself, but will happily correct title and author errors going forward if someone can show the way.

Cheers

James

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:31 PM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Including, pleasingly, Ferdinand de Saussure's PhD on the genitive absolute in Sanskrit:

• https://archive.org/details/delemploidugni00sausuoft

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 14:24, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com> wrote:

Just filling an idle moment.

Canadian libraries have scanned over 600,000 books into Archive.org.  Canadian scanning is usually of exceptionally high quality.  Searching those for "Sanskrit" produces 563 hits.  Sorted by publication date, we get this:

• https://archive.org/details/toronto?and%5B%5D=sanskrit&sin=&sort=date--
  

Professor Dominik Wujastyk

,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity

,

Department of History and Classics

,

University of Alberta, Canada

.

South Asia at the U of A:

 

sas.ualberta.ca

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