Good day, Sirs,

what to enter into the Original Title field of a Box Set?

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Good day, Sirs,

what to enter into the Original Title field of a Box Set?

Love, bbbbb

That depends, what's the title and what locality?

Box sets usually do not have an original title different than the title on the cover. TV series box set are different though. With those we put the original title of the show into the original title field. I don't think there has been found a consensus though whether to add a season qualifier though. And if yes in what form, because the seanson qualifier is usually not available in the original language on the cover.

Hi,

I'll offer this for the consideration of all.  I picked up several box sets recently and have been trying to come up with a method of adding them that is both consistent and results in a Profile that proves the most useful.  Here's what I've found so far:
When doing a Title search in the Filters/General window with "Search within title" checked, the Title, Sort, Edition and Original Title fields are searched.
So if a Box set consists of a collection of short films and any portion of their title exists in the "Original title fields they will be found.  The Original title field is limited to 100 characters so this has to be taken into consideration.
As an example; I have "Cult Classics: 20 Movie Pack" which consists of 4 discs with 5 movies on each disc and one of the titles is "Omoo, the Shark God"; by having "Omoo" in the Original title field results in the box set being displayed when that's entered.
I currently have a separate Profile for each Title in the set and if I search for "Omoo" now, its Profile is found but not that of the Box set nor its parent Profile.  I'm leaning towards taking keywords from the individual titles and entering these into the Box set original title field.

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"Foreign" locality.

E.g. 'X-men - la trilogie', 'Coffret trilogie Jason Bourne', 'Pirates des Caraïbes - la trilogie en haute définition', 'Mission: Impossible - La Trilogie', 'La trilogie Matrix', 'Spider-man - Trilogie haute définition' or 'Inspecteur Harry - L'intégrale'.

No original title with those examples.

Agreed.  These aren't 'foreign' versions of the US box set, they are that localities box set.

In general (i.e. for movie box sets) I agree. TV shows may be different though. Let's say a French box set containing the complete series (all seasons) of a US TV show might have the French name of the box set in Title and the English title of the show in Original Title.

Thanks. That confirms what I thought to be the case.

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I personally have never encountered the need for this. I'd just leave it open.

I thought the same way, and so voted against the addition of an Original Title (as the only change).

But we are wrong, Invelos approved the Original Title.

With my reduced reputation I'm very sad now.

Don't be sad, screeners are humans that make mistakes too

Donnie