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::This is a sideways approach to a generalized tree structure for some kinds of display, though; one could have a translated editions node, I suppose, with countries nodes below that, and editions below that, and reprints below that. More generally you could build a biblio that way: Le Guin -> Novels, Collections, . . . -> Editions -> printings and so on. [[User:Mike Christie|Mike Christie]] [[User_talk:Mike Christie|(talk)]] 14:41, 31 Dec 2006 (CST) | ::This is a sideways approach to a generalized tree structure for some kinds of display, though; one could have a translated editions node, I suppose, with countries nodes below that, and editions below that, and reprints below that. More generally you could build a biblio that way: Le Guin -> Novels, Collections, . . . -> Editions -> printings and so on. [[User:Mike Christie|Mike Christie]] [[User_talk:Mike Christie|(talk)]] 14:41, 31 Dec 2006 (CST) | ||
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| + | :::One other situation just came up: I'm entering some first edition data for Le Guin from Currey, and there are two states of the first edition of "The Farthest Shore". He calls them A and B. I could see us wanting to give these the same edition name ("Atheneum 1972", say) and then series number "1A" and "1B". There could also be bindings without known priority, which could make it desirable to have two or more printings with the same series number. [[User:Mike Christie|Mike Christie]] [[User_talk:Mike Christie|(talk)]] 16:26, 31 Dec 2006 (CST) | ||
Revision as of 18:26, 31 December 2006
Feature:90091 Edition label for publications OPEN It would be useful to be able to label publications as being printings of a particular edition. For example, there are plenty of Puffin printings of Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea". They have different prices, and may have varying cover art, and we certainly should capture them. Displaying every printing, interspersed with all the other printings (US etc.) is going to be quite confusing. What would be better would be some way to group printings as being all printings of a given edition, and then show the edition level data (or maybe just the first printing, and a note saying "and 14 reprints)". Following on from the "Series" approach Al suggested for magazine organization, this is like a "publication series", though the display rules would be different. Mike Christie (talk) 06:58, 31 Dec 2006 (CST)
- So it sounds like the title app would still show all of the publications it was published as, it would just give control over the organization of the display. Would this require just one level of organization, or would there be a need for hierarchies, like series for titles? Alvonruff 13:52, 31 Dec 2006 (CST)
- I can't think of a reason for multiple levels. Seems like the most you'd want to do is hide reprints, and a single level would suffice for that.
- This is a sideways approach to a generalized tree structure for some kinds of display, though; one could have a translated editions node, I suppose, with countries nodes below that, and editions below that, and reprints below that. More generally you could build a biblio that way: Le Guin -> Novels, Collections, . . . -> Editions -> printings and so on. Mike Christie (talk) 14:41, 31 Dec 2006 (CST)
- One other situation just came up: I'm entering some first edition data for Le Guin from Currey, and there are two states of the first edition of "The Farthest Shore". He calls them A and B. I could see us wanting to give these the same edition name ("Atheneum 1972", say) and then series number "1A" and "1B". There could also be bindings without known priority, which could make it desirable to have two or more printings with the same series number. Mike Christie (talk) 16:26, 31 Dec 2006 (CST)