Aha! I didn't realize it was hidden there, but will remember that for next time. No apology needed.
kc Quoting Horst Gutmann <ho...@zerokspot.com>: > 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 <kco...@kcoyle.net> 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 <ho...@zerokspot.com>: >> >>> 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 >>> Ol-discuss@archive.org >>> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >>> ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Karen Coyle >> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net >> ph: 1-510-540-7596 >> m: 1-510-435-8234 >> skype: kcoylenet >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-discuss mailing list >> Ol-discuss@archive.org >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
