[socialmedia] Gutenberg: Women in Sci-fi

[Greg Newby]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 02:41:37PM -0400, Joshua Preston via socialmedia wrote:
> I can see the issue now. The CLASSICS Bookshelf has only one Jane Austen
> book. I put a disclaimer at the top that 'bookshelves are curations' that
> may not include all available works. If there's a more comprehensive way to
> capture genres, I'd love to check it out.

Did you see my earlier response, Joshua?

The answer is Subject headings.
 - Greg

> https://public.tableau.com/views/ProjectGutenberg-Classics/Dashboard12?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link:showVizHome=no
> 
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 8:00 PM Joshua Preston <photopartner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Thx for the good info. Still learning the ropes:)
> >
> > Is their a way to get a more definitive list? I plan to do more ‘genre’
> > focused graphics in the long term so I’m curious how that might work if
> > bookshelves aren’t comprehensive. Thx Andrew.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 5:06 PM Andrew Sly <andrewpsly at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> One thing that's good to be aware of, is that any "bookshelf" listing
> >> like that is reliant on having a volunteer manually add books to it. So
> >> there is no guarantee of the list being complete or up to date.
> >>
> >> Some Bookshelfs may just be a list that one volunteer made once upon a
> >> time, and has not been updated since.
> >>
> >> With that said, it's still a valuable thing to do, as long as we keep in
> >> mind the limitations of it.
> >>
> >> --Andrew
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 9:32 AM Joshua Preston via socialmedia <
> >> socialmedia at lists.pglaf.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> A quick mockup, possible only through the awesome new format on
> >>> dev.gutenberg.org
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> [image: image.png]
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