Works on similar subjects normally are in similar-valued lc_classifications and/or dewey_decimal_class. It should be possible for clients to search on these fields to find such works.
Nearly every major online catalogue is searchable by classification: LC, BnF, BL, etc.
Doing this should help facilitate finding mergeable works, translations, etc. by the same author.
@LeadSongDog I think this probably should be closed, as I already created that claim here: #2673. It'll be nice to write it there (unless this is different).
@LeadSongDog I'm going to leave this open as it's still stuck in dev.openlibrary.org, but searching by classifications works on dev.openlibrary.org now (e.g. lcc:QA135*
, lcc:[PT5001 TO PT5980]
, or ddc:6*
) after #3290 (which was unintentionally a dupe of this).
Here are some demos:
@BrittanyBunk #2673 seems to depend on this issue, so I think they can co-exist.
Blocked by #3435
This was completed! You can now search for classifications on prod: https://openlibrary.org/search/howto#classifications
thanks!
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This was completed! You can now search for classifications on prod: https://openlibrary.org/search/howto#classifications