Edited Book/Volume as default biblio type [#939200]

Hi Rjerome,
I've been adding some biblio data as a test of the latest dev, and there seems to be a bit of confusion:

1) there is no biblio type "Edited Volume", which means that people will need to add "Book" - which is not a good solution for many reasons: Volume Editor is not quite the same as Book Author and it does not look good when among all books (monographs) by a given author you also list all the edited volumes indiscriminately. So "Edited Volume" should exist as a separate type or some sort of sub-variant of a Book, so that Edited Volumes are listed separately from Books under a give author's publications.

1a) Series Editor is not the same as Editor of an Edited Volume. Edited Volumes and Books (monographs) are part of a Series. So "Editor" should exist as an Author Type in Book and/or Edited Volume forms. Otherwise, I already see my end-users entering the names of Series Editors when they mean Editors of Edited Volumes -- and that is not the correct bibliographic data.

2) Edited Volumes normally contain Book Chapters each of which can be a separate biblio node. But then this implies that there should be some kind of hierarchical node relationship between the Edited Volume and the Book Chapters inside it.

3) [probably a bug] When we try to enter a new Book Chapter, where it says "Book Title" autocomplete field does not fetch the existing Books, but autocompletes with existing Publisher names.

Comments

Comment #1

ar-jan commented 3 November 2010 at 04:49

Title:	Edited Volumes and the Book Chapters inside them	» Edited Book/Volume as default biblio type
Category:	support	» feature

I'm running into this as well, I see there have been several requests for an 'Edited Book' / 'Edited Volume' biblio type. In this old issue #134721: edited volume rjerome recommends using the secondary_author field for volume editors. For the default Book type this field (biblio_secondary_authors) is reserved for Series Editors, so using this might be confusing. Also you get the problem that the Author filter does not take this field into account, as pointed out in that thread (don't know about Views at this time).

Any updated recommendations on this, rjerome? If we add an 'Edited Book' type, could we maybe use the 'biblio_authors' field and adapt the styles? Any chance you could add a default 'Edited Book' type?

Drupalina, as for your other two questions, you should probably open separate issues for those, if necessary. Number 2 looks it might be hard to implement (or maybe in the future, using nodereference once Biblio supports CCK/fields?) - but I wonder how useful that would be. 3 would need a separate bug report. So let's focus on the first issue here, changing status.