Lists - Option to Create List by "Date"

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Lists - Option to Create List by "Date"

1gilroy
Mar 2, 2022, 1:14 pm

So I was looking over the options, trying to create a new list based on publication date, but found this wasn't in the drop down options.
It would be nice to create a list with the option of Published in {year} or Originally published in {Year}

I can understand if they didn't want to use Original Publication Date since it isn't always filled in, but Publication date would be nice.

2AnnieMod
Mar 2, 2022, 1:34 pm

That will only work for books you have in your catalog, have dates in the records and when you have a single copy of them, right? Or am I missing something in the request?

3gilroy
Mar 2, 2022, 2:42 pm

>2 AnnieMod: I was hoping to draw from LT in general, like you would with a list created by {tag} as the option. That isn't limited to just your library.
If it was based on the Original Publication Date, it would be limited to those with it filled in.

4AnnieMod
Mar 2, 2022, 2:46 pm

>3 gilroy: That is my point exactly.

Tags are not clashing really as badly as publication dates in that regard and tags belong to the work level ultimately as they flow up from the individual and gets consolidated and combined and so on. Publication dates - not so much. If you have 10 copies in 10 accounts, each with their own publication date, which one will count for the list? All of them? How would that be helpful for a list creation really? "LT has a copy that was published in 1945?" - which may or may not mean that there is a 1945 copy existing - it may just mean that someone uses the field for something...

Just thinking aloud...

5gilroy
Mar 2, 2022, 3:07 pm

>4 AnnieMod: Well, there is potential problems with this suggestion. Not saying there aren't. However, if someone wanted to say "Read books published the year they were born" and wanted to do more than just their own library, I was thinking the lists would be the best way to do it.

Again, it could be the OPD, however, that would also limit to those filled in. Just like books get missed when they have no tags.

6AnnieMod
Mar 2, 2022, 3:26 pm

>5 gilroy: I was just pointing out that if you use the publication date and not OPD, it becomes a bit meaningless. If I want to read books published in the year I was born, I don't want a book to be on the list because it had a German reprint in that year for example...

I'd love an OPD option though - maybe then people may decide to record these a bit more :)

7lorax
Mar 2, 2022, 9:34 pm

gilroy (#5):

For most people, though, "published the year you were born" would imply "originally". Or maybe "originally in your language". But reading something decades older because there was an edition published in your birth year that someone entered on LT seems to miss the point.

I fail to see the value of "someone somewhere on LT claims that there was an edition of this book published in this year" as any sort of aggregation mechanism.