Great Books of the Western World
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2. Many references link to resources outside of the GBWW, although the same resource is also part of the GBWW. Some examples, the first article in the syntopicon (Angels) has references to Milton's Paradise Lost (okay, I assume almost everyone has that anyway), and to Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov (which is a bigger problem).
Okay, let's step back a bit as I think I misunderstand something. The References section of the syntopicon lists only items that are in the GBWW and when I try the links you mention, I get hard links to the GBWW - there are no datatypes established to support multiple versions. When I tried someone like Homer who does have a datatype, I still go to GBWW but an see the datatype in the reference box. Therefore, I have come to the conclusion, I don't understand what you see that is incorrect. Are you clicking on the page numbers for the link? Could you post screen shots? Thanks.
I haven't had a chance to look at this super closely (and unfortunately I'm out for the rest of the day) but I think I know what's going on here. Our resources require external links to point to a single (and it can be only one) resource ID. Reference tagging tools prefer cases where a book lives as a single resource with a single ID. It doesn't do well with anthology resources where a single book might co-exit with three other books.
In this case the link is a completely valid and not-incorrect link to a resource you don't own. Unfortunately, in this case it would probably be better to have an "internal" link to the ID in this series.
I'll take a look at what the best course of action here might be and respond tomorrow.
It was just as I expected. I have ideas for a better long term solution (it's similar to what MJ suggested) but that's a ways out.
In the meantime, I'm going to analyze the Syntopicon and provide internal links where possible. It's not my favorite solution but I think its the best course of action in this scenario.
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