Translations:Handbibliotheek beschrijven met LibraryThing/29/en

What was difficult?

The biggest difficulty we encountered was finding a good way to describe magazines. Ideally, you would enter the magazine once yourself and then link it to all the issues in your collection. But the LibraryThing data model prompts you either to include all your issues of a magazine under one record, or to create a record for each issue of the magazine. We chose the second option because this meant we could assign specific tags per magazine issue to increase the findability of specific information. The disadvantage of this approach is that different issues of the same magazine are not linked to each other. We dealt with this by assigning the placement numbers in such a way that different issues of the same magazine are kept next to each other.