Short stories, omnibus components, novellas in collections, etc.

Any thoughts on how to classify items that are components of a larger collection? When I catalogue an omnibus or anthology that contains multiple novels or novellas, I always catalogue the book as a whole, and also the individual components separately. As media, these components are each part of either an ebook or paper book, but they do not exist as indivual entities.

Edited for spelling.

I'm putting mine in Unknown.

So do I

I feel that is wrong, for me. I know they are at least a Book>Paper Book or Book>Ebook . I can see the reason for cataloging a part of an omnibus.

Book>Paper>Include would probably tell me enough.

>4 JerryMmm: Are you just doing omnibuses, or are you doing short stories as well?

I'd recommend anyone entering short stories to hold off doing a lot of work with them. Some of the early discussions about this feature in the combiners' group were about using media to separate different works with the same name, like the movie Russia House from the book. If this turns out to be useful, those of us with big collections of short stories probably will want to use media to help separate a short story from an anthology of the same name, but that would mean using a separate media distinction.

I'm not sure how specific I want to get with them. Book>paper book>hardcover>inclusion vs. Book>inclusion.

I'm also trying to decide on terminology, if I have to create a custom media type. Inclusion? Contained? Component? Any suggestions?

>6 SylviaC: "Analytic" is the technical library term.

>7 aulsmith: It's not very non-library-technical friendly, is it?

Previous to reading your post, if I saw that in a list of formats, I would have no clue what it was supposed to mean.

Dropping it into Google would help me only a little. You do see the definition of "of or relating to analysis or analytics; especially : separating something into component parts". But I don't automatically jump from that to "Oh, yeah, this is how you indicate the short stories in an anthology."

>7 aulsmith: >8 LShelby: Not exactly intuitive, is it?

>8 LShelby: >9 SylviaC: I just can't resist showing off arcane knowledge. "Inclusion" sounds more intuitive.