Comment 2 for bug 858280

Message replied by the OL team

Anand Chitipothu replied:

Hi Sébastien,

Open Library has the author info only at the works. The edition pages display the author info taken from the work.

The JSON API and RDF API just gives the contents of edition/work objects in JSON/RDF. So you need to get the work objects to get the author info.

Earlier Open Library had the author info at edition-level, but that moved to work pages when works were introduced. Some edition objects still have the old authors field and that adds to the confusion.

Ideally the edition RDF should include the authors from work, but that is not done yet.

The only solution, I can think of as of now is to get the work url from edition and get the author info from work url.

I hope this helps.

Anand
Open Library