Horst, welcome to the list and to the ongoing debate about series :-). And thanks for offering to do some work on the Star Trek books.
I agree with you, that the title of the individual book should go in the title field. In particular, that will make the automatic matching of book titles more accurate. The series can go in the series field. We have talked of creating lists (http://openlibrary.org/lists) for these popular series (Star Trek, Harry Potter, etc.) as a way to bring them together for those of us who like to read a whole series (and some of us want to read them in order). We have also talked of creating a special field for these "reading series" -- that is, books that have something in common for readers, as opposed to the series that are like "Acta Whatsits v. 27" that are more of a way that publishers and libraries keep track of things. Meanwhile, putting the series name in the series field gets us toward those goals. Thanks again, kc Quoting Horst Gutmann <[email protected]>: > Hi :-) > > First mail to this list so: Hello, everyone :-) > > I have a bunch of Star Trek books lying around and noticed that so far > most of them catalogued in the OL were imported automatically and so I > thought I could spend some time improving the meta data there. Given > that they are mostly all part of a series or sub-series I'm not quite > sure, though, how that should be represented in the title structure or > *if* it even should be represented at all. > > For example: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5886066W/Star_Trek_Destiny > is listed as "Star Trek: Destiny" as the main title, which is actually > the series title. IMO the primary name of this book is "Gods of Night" > (which also exists as a duplicate entry with exactly this name) which > is Book I of the series "Star Trek: Destiny". > > Are there perhaps some examples I could look at? > > Thank you :-) > -- Horst > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
