Tim Spalding wrote:
>
> LT's work system is somewhat more embracing than xISBN. All
> translations of Homer are one work.
>
That's how FRBR defines Work. OCLC is actually usually working at the
Expression level, due to lack of info in the records.
> 2. LibraryThing has 4,339,326 works and 36,094,271 books. Of these
> 2,939,431 are singletons. So 67% of works are singletons, but only 8%
> of books belong to a singleton work.
>
In the UC union catalog, we had about 35 million 'books', and 10 million
works. However, 66% of the works were singletons. So we had about 6.5
million singletons, and the other 29 million books turned into the 3.5
million merged titles.
So I think we ended up with a classic zipf-ian curve, with a very high
end that dropped sharply, and a long tail.
kc
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