Adding series metadata
| Project: | EPUB Maintenance |
| Component: | Open Packaging Format (OPF) |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | minor |
| Assigned: | JCrossman |
| Status: | future consideration |
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I've been searching the specs and the Dublin Core documentation, and I don't find any way to add series and number metadata in the OPF files. It's quite common to have books that are part of a series (a trilogy, an anthology, or whatever) and there should be a way to store that information, as well as the position of a book in its series, to allow for more sophisticate sorting options. Sometimes this information is included in the title, but that's not the most convenient method.
Can the Dublin Core elements be extended in some way to include the series metadata? Or am I just blind and the option is already there?
dc:relation can cover some of this request, but probably not order within a series. Moving the "future consideration" for possible 2.1 or 3.0 inclusion.
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#1
That information is not a standard part of the included DC subset. However, that is an ideal opportunity to use the standard metadata extension mechanism:
<meta name="SeriesInfo" content="XYZ" />
#2
Yes, that's true. But is there some specification or recommendation for that? As long as there isn't, different publishers and creators will use different meta tags, and that's far from ideal.
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#4
You might want to review the Dublin Core Relation element. It is not specific enough for all information about a series, such as sequence information, but is intended to show related works.
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