Apathy Books research poll

[active_apathy]

It's waaay past time I did something about getting apathy_books working properly. So, there's a moderately monstrous poll behind the cut.

It'll go toward defining how posts will work, and it'll help make a post template, and it'll help with tagging entries for users to find. So...

EDIT: Apparently, I did miss something. The questions about formatting of names, subjects, genres and such are for the tags, because it's important that they look the same. For the item itself, things like author/creator name should appear as they do on the item. It's why those three questions follow the one about tagging, but I probably should have made it clearer.

[Poll #932847]

And... yes, the options for question one are essentially just bits of a level two ISBD description of an item. But, that's kind of what it's designed for.

For all the semi-monstrousness of the poll, there's probably things I've missed; please, if you notice something, mention it.

Comments

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It was pretty much how I always saw it in my head; simple, factual data that rip salient points out of the rest of the text.

And, yes. I thought that having dessert recipes and cat care in the poll examples might've been a giveaway. :p

Having a break might be useful, but I'd like all them all to sit outside the cut. It's not much text, and it's better to have it outside.

Author first is useful, too; I was thinking ISBD, which uses "Title : subtitle / Author" at the start, rather than something more like a catalogue entry, which puts 'main entry' (typically author) at the top.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Personally, as I was typing that up, I found having it visually broken (even by a single blank line) easier to visually digest.

And you think I paid attention to the poll options beyond "Ooo, tickycircle!"? ;)

Author first helps keep the author and title close together, without being separated by the series info (which SHOULD immediately follow Title).

I think we're looking at something more cataloguey here.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

We're looking at a community, but with the added bonus of being able to use it as a kind of database of reviews.