I think I would add the series number. There doesn't seem to be much point in identifying a book as being in a series if there is no indication of which one in the series it is.
_ _ _ "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." - Rosa Luxemburg The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Millar" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:22 PM Subject: [ol-discuss] Series titles: include individual ID or not? > In OpenLibrary editing, I see that if I enable "librarian mode" on an > edition, I can edit the series name field ("Is the book part of a > series?") > > Should the series field contain just the name of the entire series, or > should it contain something distinguishing the individual work? > > For example, these two books are part of a series: > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL4120690M/The_metal_shaper > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL11626155M/Milling_Machine > > Should they both have the same series name ("Build Your Own Metal > Working Shop from Scrap"), > > OR > > should they have distinguishing series names ("Build Your Own Metal > Working Shop from Scrap, Book 3" and "Build Your Own Metal Working > Shop from Scrap, Book 4" or similar)? > > And which mailing list is the right one for questions like this? > > Thanks > > - Alan > _______________________________________________ > 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]
