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Old 10-15-2016, 09:01 AM   #1
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Subtitle in metadata?
I keep getting these emails about Metadata and Big Data and all that stuff, which has caused me to consider how I might add the subtitle to the title of the book. I found a Mobileread discussion on this, dated 2013, which suggested that the way to do it was Title / Space / Colon / Space / Subtitle (without the backslashes, of course).

Does that still seem acceptable, appropriate, advisable? I'm sticking with Epub2, so as I understand the matter I can't have a separate subtitle field.

Thanks for any light!
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Old 10-18-2016, 08:50 AM   #2
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For me, it depends on whether the book is a standalone or part of a series. I traditionally use a colon-space as the first delimiter and a space-dash-space as the second. Hence:

Vampire: The Masquerade

General Failures 3: The Wreckoning - Bob's Revenge
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It would be really nice if the-powers-that-be would recognize that there are these types of books that fall into a genre called "Fiction" and that series name/# (in addition to sub-title) is actually a thing...

I know those aren't supported under DC for ePub2, but I think there are some possibilities under ePub3...at least from what I've heard. In the meantime I've been using the Calibre metadata tags for series/# and using the colon space for subtitle. Any book reader worth their spit would read the Calibre metadata....

General Failures 3: The Wreckoning - Bob's Revenge
would be:

<dc:title>The Wreckoning: Bob's Revenge</dc:title>
<meta content="General Failures" name="calibre:series" />
<meta content="3" name="calibre:series_index" />


If a standard metadata becomes available in the future for epub2 then it would be the easiest thing to regex the calibre metadata into the proper format.
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It would be really nice if the-powers-that-be would recognize that there are these types of books that fall into a genre called "Fiction" and that series name/# (in addition to sub-title) is actually a thing...

I know those aren't supported under DC for ePub2, but I think there are some possibilities under ePub3...at least from what I've heard.
Oh, it's a piece of cake with EPUB 3, but Notjohn was specifically looking for EPUB 2 answers.
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For me, it depends on whether the book is a standalone or part of a series. I traditionally use a colon-space as the first delimiter and a space-dash-space as the second. Hence:

Vampire: The Masquerade

General Failures 3: The Wreckoning - Bob's Revenge
So I can simply include the sub-title as part of the title in the metadata of an Epub2? There's no substance to the idea that it must be written this way: Vampire : The Masquerade?

(I really like The Wreckoning!)
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There's no substance to the idea that it must be written this way: Vampire : The Masquerade?
None whatsoever.
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