Brixen catalogue [solved]

Hello

I suggest the addition of the following catalogue in two volumes:

Brixen I Peter Gummerer; 1982. Brixen Münzgeschichte : Die Münzen der Fürstbischöfe von Brixen und die Sedisvakanzmedaillen des Domkapitels. / Band 1. Tiroler Numismatische Gesellschaft, Hall in Tirol, Austria. OCLC 1185150708.

Brixen II Peter Gummerer; 1982. Brixen Münzgeschichte : Die Münzen der Fürstbischöfe von Brixen und die Sedisvakanzmedaillen des Domkapitels. / Band 2. Fortsetzung. Tiroler Numismatische Gesellschaft, Hall in Tirol, Austria. OCLC 1185150708.

Thank you

Done ! :-)

Thank you

Please note that until recently, the translation was only added for books with original titles in different scripts. This is how bibliographies typically work in the most common style guides: 

you should not translate original titles in Latin scripts. There are a few exceptions, e.g. when the book is in two languages, one being English. If you want to translate the title, it will rather be inconsistent with most of the rest of the bibliography of Numista.

In any case, please further note that in English, titles follow a title case, and not a sentence case as you've translated this, and I would also suggest that Sedisvakanzmedaillen should be translated to Sede Vacante Medals. But still, to avoid all these issues, I would say better not to translate it.

Could you also please add the volume numbers to the codes? Brixen# 20 is not enough to identify a coin. It should be Brixen 1# 20.

And finally, the pictures are not uploaded, could you please check this?

Thanks, done!

- For code with numbers I was confused as we find both systems in the DB (using same code for multiple volumes or even books like Sp for Spink) but if numerotation restart from 0 then indeed it makes sense.

- I deleted the few latin english translations I found.

- For cover i wondered if it was relevant as the cover here is for a periodic publication, not a book if I'm not wrong?

Thank you! much appreciated

Compendium

Thanks, done!

- For code with numbers I was confused as we find both systems in the DB (using same code for multiple volumes or even books like Sp for Spink) but if numerotation restart from 0 then indeed it makes sense.

Here is what was discussed before:

stratocaster

Xavier

I'm not sure whether listing them with a single code is the right approach. We need to define some guidelines for that.

In some cases, we list all the volumes with a single code (example: KM). In other cases, we list them with different codes (examples: RIC, HGC, Miselli). The later approach is needed when the numbering starts again in each volume, in order to avoid ambiguity. Even if it's not the case, having different codes may be useful for readers to know in which volume the item is described, in order to buy or borrow the right volume.

I remember this discussion. The consensus was to always add volumes with separate codes for the reason you've stated: a reference needs to include the volume number. This can also have some impact on sorting by reference.

 

There were just two exceptions discussed: KM# and P#, for the reason that it would cause too much chaos to reassign tens of thousands of numbers, and these particular references are so common that it should be quite clear.

 

Additionally, there should be no separate codes for catalogues that have all the reference numbers in a single volume. For example, many catalogues have a volume I with the text and a volume II with the image plates. Then one code is enough.

I believe I might have written all these guidelines somewhere in Confluence, including rules for translations, capitalisation, etc.

Even if a catalogue has continuous numbering, it would be impossible to know which volume to pick based on the number alone. For example, Brixen #101 doesn't tell you which volume it is. And some catalogues have 10+ volumes. So I think adding the volume number is always welcome. It does make it sometimes easier to add a reference, but the result is not a complete reference. 

Compendium

- For cover i wondered if it was relevant as the cover here is for a periodic publication, not a book if I'm not wrong?

I think, indeed, for periodicals, it may not be necessary to add the cover. However, these two numbers are exclusively dedicated to the Brixen catalogue. There are no other articles inside. So here it may make sense, as users can actually recognise this catalogue by its cover, which is not very explicit about its content.

Alternatively, here are the photos of the inner covers:

Internal covers added!

I totally align with discussions you linked, i'll add that in my backlog of things to clean.

I already did it this month for Medieval European Coinage where all 17 Volumes (not all of these are even published yet) shared same “MEC” code: long and cumbersome task indeed, as we cant automatize codes attribution…

For Sp and other it will be huge 😅