Talk:Requests for comment/Book management

Ideas from Aubrey

 * Include national authority control (GND, BNF, SBN, ecc.) in the metadata
 * OAI-PMH compliance
 * repeatable and optional metadata (as Dublin core are)
 * Dublin Core compliant

(moved here from here for clarity's sake) – GorillaWarfare (talk) 01:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi GorillaWarfare, sorry if I edited your page :-) --Aubrey (talk) 08:28, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Metadata to give visibility to
A few ideas:

Very useful

 * Author's years of birth and death (simply like this: 1421-1503)

Useful

 * Text's first publication date
 * Text's last publication by original author corrected date. [//flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/jet/public/feuilletoir/feuilletoir.php?f=bibliotheque/feuilletoir/flaubert_education_sentimentale#205 Example: here is the last correction of L'Éducation sentimentale ] by the author Gustave Flaubert.

These dates are different from the book's date (for instance an edition of Fables de Jean de La Fontaine in the 19th century is not the same thing as an edition of Fables de Jean de La Fontaine published during the author's life and corrected by the author himself. In fact it can be very different, because many editors have corrected texts for a variety of reasons, and seeing the corrections is interesting too.

May be useful too

 * Other publication by original author corrected dates


 * --Zyephyrus (talk) 06:23, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Interoperability
In reaction to the RfC: Please ensure that books play nicely together with other extensions that may affect the contents of a book. In other words, use the parser results and not the mediawiki source to e.g. export a book to PDF. AFAIK the Collections extension does not do this and uses its own parser. Therefore, extensions such as Semantic MediaWiki cannot be used in a book since the Collections parser does not known how to handle SMW queries.

Remco de Boer 13:52, 25 June 2013 (UTC)