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(Option to) Sort Award Orgs by Country

1davidgn
Nov 13, 2025, 10:04 am

Just got around to assigning country details to all 4000-ish of them, and I'm nearly done. The sort would help immensely in spotting orgs I missed and/or errors in assignments.

2davidgn
Edited: Dec 4, 2025, 1:02 pm

Oh, and can we divide awards by the three types on org pages too?

Case in point:
https://www.librarything.com/award/organization/4/The-Guardian

There's no finding the awards and distinctions for the lists.

3davidgn
Edited: Dec 31, 2025, 2:21 am

While we're on awards: A sort option of Date, Category, Order Label, Stage would be great. (cf. https://www.librarything.com/award/17095/El-vicio-impune-de-leer-Los-mejores-lib... )

4timspalding
Dec 31, 2025, 1:53 am

Where do you want them sorted by country?

5davidgn
Edited: Dec 31, 2025, 2:05 am

>4 timspalding: https://www.librarything.com/award/organizations (That one. Pretty please. It's getting unmanageable.)

6birder4106
Jan 1, 6:05 am

>5 davidgn:
I would love that too.

7davidgn
Jan 1, 6:07 am

>6 birder4106: Hierarchies (possibly collapsible) would be the extended ask, though it would encounter the complication of parent-child relationships across countries if both were combined in one view.

8birder4106
Jan 1, 6:31 am

>7 davidgn:
What are you thinking?

I would give languages ​​an overarching hierarchy.

The relatively small German-speaking world (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein with approximately 102 million inhabitants, of whom about 90-95 million are native speakers) is particularly interconnected within the literary world. The situation is likely similar in other language areas.

9davidgn
Edited: Jan 1, 7:14 am

>8 birder4106: Oh, I was referring to the existing organizational hierarchies. (For the most byzantine example: https://www.librarything.com/award/organization/5/American-Library-Association-A... )

But that doesn't show the full tree structure, since the view for each individual org flattens all sub-orgs and their respective sub-orgs (to however many levels) into a single list of child orgs, rather than preserve the structure. (ETA: And each org also displays its immediate parent org, if any. Here's an intermediate org as an example. https://www.librarything.com/award/organization/4868/American-Association-of-Sch... -- and one of its child-having children: https://www.librarything.com/award/organization/146/Pennsylvania-School-Libraria... ) The display is still embryonic, in other words. But it gets the job done for now.

Language groups of some sort might be a worthwhile idea, though.

11davidgn
Edited: Feb 28, 12:21 am

>10 timspalding: Many thanks for that, Tim.

A side effect is that we will soon be approaching a point where a more robust regime of recording and viewing org relationships will be helpful. I'm just starting to piece together the tree of the International Science Council, and it's already becoming unwieldy. The relationships here are also of many different types and tend to branch heavily, so forcing single parents is an exercise in useful fiction that breaks a lot of connections. I'm doing my best.

https://www.librarything.com/award/organization/10508/International-Science-Coun...

Note: I'm just getting started.

12davidgn
Mar 1, 4:29 am

Aand, if you look at it today, you'll see what I'm talking about.

https://www.librarything.com/award/organization/10508/International-Science-Coun...