Hello Karen, sounds great :-) Apologies are in order, though: After you mentioned that there already is a "series" field I finally found the "Librarian mode" button which revealed that field :-)
Best wishes, Horst On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
