>And from Tim's explanation of what LibraryThing does, it begins to >seem that 'series' is not incompatible with the upcoming 'list' >function in OL. That will allow users to group books around any >criteria that they wish. Given that the concept of series is fuzzy, >and is often only in the eye of the beholder, having series be a user >list rather than a piece of bibliographic description begins to make >sense. I do wonder, though, if a series should be a specific *type* of >list... and if lists will be tag-able so you could tag them as a >series, as opposed to, say, your list of favorite books.
How about different namespaces for each type of list, like "List" which is similar to the normal entries and "User List" which is a subpage or subarea of User pages? Alex On 15 October 2010 13:01, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Alan Millar <[email protected]>: > > > > So that sounds like the series field should stay at the edition level, > > and not change to the work level per Edward Betts' comment. Right? > > I believe that is the case for the series fields that we have at the > moment in OL. If anyone runs into series of type #1, please post the > URL. > > And from Tim's explanation of what LibraryThing does, it begins to > seem that 'series' is not incompatible with the upcoming 'list' > function in OL. That will allow users to group books around any > criteria that they wish. Given that the concept of series is fuzzy, > and is often only in the eye of the beholder, having series be a user > list rather than a piece of bibliographic description begins to make > sense. I do wonder, though, if a series should be a specific *type* of > list... and if lists will be tag-able so you could tag them as a > series, as opposed to, say, your list of favorite books. > > Another thing that LibraryThing does it that it has a place for users > to input the names of characters. That makes it fairly easy to find > some kinds of series where the characters follow through from one book > to another (which I think is fairly common). The same could be true > for places ('Discworld'). > > kc > > > > > - 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] > > > > > > -- > 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] >
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