Picking one author as lead is bending the data to fit the schema, a mistake in my opinion, they may be equal. Often there is a lead author, which can change with edition an example is High Performance Mysql 1st ed was Jeremy D. Zawodny (lead), Derek J. Balling. 2nd ed is Baron Schwartz (lead), Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Arjen Lentz, Derek J. Balling
So you need a join table to correctly join multiple authors to a work There are a number of works that the person or committee collating the book is only an editor and does not write any or little content. Libraries may have done things in a particular way but was it right, or was it just bending data to fit the schema because of the costs of going back to the software suppliers and getting it right was too high way back when. Dave Caroline _______________________________________________ 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]
