Recording anthologies of stories

[Nuno Silva]

On 2025-12-06, Bruno Cornec wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Bill Gee said on Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 09:06:59AM -0600:
>> I also have an extensive music collection, nearly 5000 albums.  Two
>> similar problems exist in that.  First, if any one album is given
>> more than one disk, then EVERY album has more than one disk.  I have
>> at least one album (a collection of Bach organ pieces) which has 18
>> disks.
>
> I have more than 8500 CDs in Tellico. Each physical CD is an entry. e.g.
> All 18 CDs could have the same title, potentially a subtitle that could
> help differentiate them, but on my side I chose to have a number of CDs
> with a total of CDs. That way I can query and sort the way I want.
>
>> Second, I would like to be able to get a list of songs.  It would be
>> interesting to know, for example, which artists have recorded "Comes
>> Love".
>
> Using the tracks entires, I can search for a gloria of Byrd without
> difficulty either. The serach is full text and extremely quick.
>
>> Also in a music collection, there are anthologies of music which
>> have the same issues as anthologies of books.
>
> Well, I always think in tellico as collecting a physcial item: A book, a
> score, a CD, a DVD, ... and even if there may be some limitations, the
> way I can use tellico and adapt the data model at will is key, in
> addition to the exterme performances I can get from it for searches.
>
> And it's Free Software, so if you want something, you can always code
> it.
>
> Bruno.

(I'm just trying to add to this discussion with what I think is another
example of this kind of indexing:)

I think another example of a situation where this kind of dual level
comes into account is Disney Comics [0], where you have both the
magazines/issues and the stories, and indexing stories themselves can
be, besides appropriate for that medium, also useful for bigger
collections (e.g. if you want to know on which magazines will you find a
story you want to reread).

To add complexity, in some countries stories may then be grouped under
different topics and republished, and some countries don't show story
identifiers at all (meaning you'd have to do more than just transcribe
an identifier).

Sadly, INDUCKS [1] now requires login (thank you, GenAI scrappers...);
the text format to write indices is described in [2].

[1] https://inducks.org/
[2] https://inducks.org/bolderbast/xh1.html

And URLs for two story entries there to illustrate the outcome of
indexing of this kind with a larger/global index:

http://web.archive.org/web/20250726172226/https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++178-02
http://web.archive.org/web/20241008110427/https://inducks.org/story.php?c=AR+102

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Nuno Silva