Is the CK-ish field "Publisher Series" editable?
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1eqx
In Settings > Display Styles > Common Knowledge there is a field named "Publisher Series". This could be useful but the data is quite poor.
Can that information be changed?
And how does this differ from the "Series" information on the work?
Can that information be changed?
And how does this differ from the "Series" information on the work?
2MarthaJeanne
If you edit Publishers Series, you edit it for everybody. Look at Little Women. It belongs to the series Little Women. Every book in that work is included in that series. It is also listed in 49 publishers series. Any single copy probably belongs to at most one of those. But you cannot delete any your copy doesn't belong to, because other copies do belong to them.
3paradoxosalpha
The data tends to be quite good; it just shows things in which you may be uninterested.
4AnnieMod
>1 eqx: The CK was where Publisher Series used to live. Now it is using the new Series system - so even if it looks like a CK value, it is not.
If under Poor you mean "My book is not in that series", please do NOT remove the pub series from the record. We do not have an edition layer so if even one copy of the book belonged to that pub series, the value is correct - i.e. a book that was published in the Penguin Classics series will have the series in its list even if you have the Oxford Classics or a Russian translation.
>2 MarthaJeanne: already explained the difference between Series and Pub Series.
If under Poor you mean "My book is not in that series", please do NOT remove the pub series from the record. We do not have an edition layer so if even one copy of the book belonged to that pub series, the value is correct - i.e. a book that was published in the Penguin Classics series will have the series in its list even if you have the Oxford Classics or a Russian translation.
>2 MarthaJeanne: already explained the difference between Series and Pub Series.
5eqx
Thanks all for the comments :)
I was looking at the Publisher Series page for Oxford World's Classics: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/256050/Oxford-Worlds-Classics and saw a ton of Penguin titles.
>4 AnnieMod: We do not have an edition layer...
That explains it. So Publisher Series is basically useless then...
I was looking at the Publisher Series page for Oxford World's Classics: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/256050/Oxford-Worlds-Classics and saw a ton of Penguin titles.
>4 AnnieMod: We do not have an edition layer...
That explains it. So Publisher Series is basically useless then...
6lilithcat
>5 eqx:
A work may belong to more than one Publisher Series.
If you look at "Belongs to Publisher Series" under "Series and Work Relationships" on the Adam Bede page, you'll see:
Collins Classics (3)
Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics (3)
Doubleday Dolphin (C62)
Everyman's Library (27)
Everyman's Library New Series (59)
Great Illustrated Classics
Great Illustrated Classics - Dodd, Mead & Company
International Collectors Library
Oxford World's Classics
Penguin Classics
Penguin English Library, 1963 series (EL121)
The Pocket Library (PL-507)
Reader's Digest World's Best Reading (127)
Reader's Enrichment Series (RE 700)
Signet Classics
The World's Classics (63)
A work may belong to more than one Publisher Series.
If you look at "Belongs to Publisher Series" under "Series and Work Relationships" on the Adam Bede page, you'll see:
Collins Classics (3)
Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics (3)
Doubleday Dolphin (C62)
Everyman's Library (27)
Everyman's Library New Series (59)
Great Illustrated Classics
Great Illustrated Classics - Dodd, Mead & Company
International Collectors Library
Oxford World's Classics
Penguin Classics
Penguin English Library, 1963 series (EL121)
The Pocket Library (PL-507)
Reader's Digest World's Best Reading (127)
Reader's Enrichment Series (RE 700)
Signet Classics
The World's Classics (63)
7AnnieMod
>5 eqx: It is useful to see what books had been published in the series. It is less useful as a visible field in one’s catalog. :)
In LT we have 2 levels only - an individual book and a work level (containing all copies in all formats and languages). So there are only 2 places to add things in.
Publisher series are a bit of an anomaly - they live on the work level but do not belong to all books inside of the work.
In LT we have 2 levels only - an individual book and a work level (containing all copies in all formats and languages). So there are only 2 places to add things in.
Publisher series are a bit of an anomaly - they live on the work level but do not belong to all books inside of the work.
8paradoxosalpha
>5 eqx: I was looking at the Publisher Series page for Oxford World's Classics: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/256050/Oxford-Worlds-Classics and saw a ton of Penguin titles.
If you "saw ... Penguin titles" in the form of cover images, that is because the cover images are assigned by popularity to each work individually, rather than assigned based on the publisher series. I think that most if not all of those titles do actually have Oxford World's Classics editions. It is correct for those to be associated through shared work data. That's what it's for.
It looks ratty to have those "off-publisher" covers in there, I agree. But that's why that particular kind of publisher series will look dismal. Not because anyone has added anything incorrect to the series.
If you "saw ... Penguin titles" in the form of cover images, that is because the cover images are assigned by popularity to each work individually, rather than assigned based on the publisher series. I think that most if not all of those titles do actually have Oxford World's Classics editions. It is correct for those to be associated through shared work data. That's what it's for.
It looks ratty to have those "off-publisher" covers in there, I agree. But that's why that particular kind of publisher series will look dismal. Not because anyone has added anything incorrect to the series.
