Karen I think you have identified the heart of the matter with this but I am unsure whether "reader series" is an appropriate term. I think "series" and "publication series<http://www.google.com/#q=publication+series&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=sH8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&fp=6b353df19b06cafa>" (see the google search) may be more accurate in their description of variables. Places like Wikipedia, commonly use "series" alone to denote fictional series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Novel_series) whereas series of academic works are called "Monographs in series" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_series). That is a small nitpicky thing though,
Alex On 15 October 2010 11:08, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote: > I think we have two meanings of series going: > > 1. A group of works that have something meaningful in common based on > their content (Harry Potter as a series, Alan Banks mysteries as a > series) > > 2. A designation of membership in a published set (The Great Books Series) > > Library cataloging only recognizes #2. The series titles in > parentheses in the Amazon records also appear to be #2. I don't know > of a distinguishing term for #1, however. There are web sites that > chronicle book series, like: > http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/ref/booksinseries/ > to help people read all of a series, and to read it in order. > > Maybe we can call #2 a 'publisher's series' and #1 a 'reader's series'? > > With this distinction, #1 is at the work level, #2 is at the edition level. > > kc > > Quoting Alan Millar <amillar...@gmail.com>: > > >> Currently the series field is attached in the database to editions, we > >> should move it to the work, because all editions of a work should be > >> part of the same series. > > > > That begs the question of what constitutes a series then. I see books > > labelled something like "Classic Reprint Series" because that one > > publisher decided to reprint a bunch of old books, according to their > > own criteria of what they thnk is classic. In this case, the series > > does only apply to the one edition, and not all of the editions of the > > work. Does that mean this series label gets demoted and we deem it > > not really a series? Sounds like a slippery-slope nightmare of > > judgement to me. Or is there a standard definition of series that I > > just don't know about, and everyone else knows that such a series is > > not really a series? > > > > Just based on my casual observations, it seems like the series should > > be available at the edition level. Perhaps like the title and > > subtitle, though, there could be a series entry for both the work and > > the edition. > > > > - Alan > > _______________________________________________ > > Ol-discuss mailing list > > Ol-discuss@archive.org > > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > > > > > > -- > Karen Coyle > kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >
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