FWIW, the matter has been discussed for years on LibraryThing's
Combiners! and Series groups, in excruciating depth. The options are
more complex than seems at first sight, because—like so much
library-related metadata—getting it right requires taking account of:
1. Degrees of truth
2.
On Wed, October 13, 2010 9:10 am, Tom Morris wrote:
I thought the whole point of having fields in a database record was to
avoid having to do string parsing, with all its problems, to recover
your original data.
Well, that's one of the side effects of good database design, but it's not
the
The record (revision 4) was correct. It had
- no subtitle
- series: Build your own metal working shop from scrap ; 3
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL4120690M/The_metal_shaper?b=6a=4_compare=Comparem=diff
There is no need to copy the name of the series into the subtitle field.
To make sure
International:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
- Original Message -
From: Alan Millar amillar...@gmail.com
To: Open Library -- general discussion ol-discuss@archive.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] Series titles: include individual ID
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
ol-discuss@archive.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] Series titles: include individual ID or not?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Roger Loran Bailey
rogerbaile...@aol.com wrote:
I think I would add the series number. There doesn't seem to be much
point
