Bookmarks

[T3tsuo]

I've some bookmarks for trade for phonecards or banknotes.

Anyone interested send me a message.

[rintipur]

Hello collectors,

I have also many german bookmarks for swap against advertising cards.

Please PM

Regards

rintipur

[tcawe]

Anyone up for creating Bookmarks as a category on Colnect? If so, please read More Collectibles?

[rintipur]

Yes, i have thought about it and I could add about 400 german bookmarks at the moment.

I think that the database could be the same as for postcards. Only the column "location" is not necessary.

It would be very useful to know how many people are interested in a database of bookmarks.

So please if anyone collects bookmarks post a little message in this topic.

Regards

rintipur

[tcawe]

This forum is less active than the other ones on Colnect but all we need to do to kick start a category is to have one dedicated person kick-start it and from then on you'll find more bookmark collectors to join in and improve the catalog.

If you're up for it, you'll become the coordinator for that category. I see you already have 2 stars so I'm sure it'll be easy for you to assume the role of a coordinator.

Please answer the following questions for me (from: https://colnect.com/en/help/collecting/ ... llectibles):

Are there any catalogs for that category? Please mention as many catalogs as you know. Add links if they are on-line or send a few page scans if not.

Which data fields are relevant to each collectible item in the category? Take a look at some single item page of current categories. Now think how the single item page of the new category should look like.

How will collectors navigate the new category? On our phone cards section navigation may start with country, then company, then series and then a list. On our stamps section we usually start with country, then series and then a list. These options for navigation can be extended. Please clearly state your vision of how navigation would be best for collectors.

Once you are comfortable with the data fields you have selected you are ready to create a new NIF for the new category. Take one of the existing NIFs (of a category with similar navigation and fields) and change the names of the columns to what you think is best. Enter sample information of a few items and send the new NIF for inspection.

The postcards section isn't very well designed and that is why when clicking themes some themes are repeated. Please navigate the other categories and try to figure out would would suit bookmarks best. If you can create a sample NIF, even better. If not, I'll do it.

THANKS

[T3tsuo]

I think for the bookmark section the categories should be:

The main category:

- Country

----- Themes (e.g. Animals, Art, Fauna, Landscapes, Movies, Music, People)

----- Book Publishers

---------- Name of the book publishers from each country (e.g. from Portugal)

------------------ Asa

--------------------------- All type of bookmarks that have Asa logotype

------------------ Leya

--------------------------- All type of bookmarks that have Leya logotype

------------------ Devir

--------------------------- All type of bookmarks that have Devir logotype

I also have more than 1000 bookmarks from Portugal, but I don't have time to become a coordinator. I can scan some bookmarks if anyone start this section.

[tcawe]

If someone comes up wanting to be the coordinator for this category, it would be great.

What about the other questions presented on More Collectibles? ?

Thanks

[MarcasyPostalesVF]

I want to help with the bookmark catalogue! What I have to do? I have a lot of bookmarks scans in my picasa galleries.

[Dana-Levitas]

I want to help with the bookmark catalogue! What I have to do? I have a lot of bookmarks scans in my picasa galleries.

Thanks for the initiative What is needed to begin a Bookmark category on Colnect first is a coordinator. We need a collector willing to start it - helping create and maintain the category. Are you interested in becoming a coordinator for this category?

[Pelacanyes]

Hello my friends

It seems that I can devote time to return to the collections and what better way to do it than with a new category. Here in Catalonia, there are many fans in Collections bookmarks. I do not have many bookmarks but I think it will be enough to start this new collection on Colnect.

I've taken the liberty of making a draft of what could be the NIF (attached to this post) and a small guide fields that make. Obviously not definitive and I would argue that we could improve it

Bookmarks

• Code Catalog (Catalog code): acronym category (BM) - acronym country (LLL) - correlative numerical code for each country.

• Developer: Publishing, company or organization that has made the bookmark

• Topics (Themes) - comma separated list of items. Using only existing issues you see Colnect. Notify the coordinator if a relevant issue is not on the list.

• Material type Manufacturing: cardboard, plastic, metal, fabric, ...

• Height mm (Height in mm) - a single number, such as 150, 190, 210.

• Width mm (Width in mm) - a single number, such as 25, 30, 50.

• Series (Series) - Use the names of the series whenever possible. Leave blank if not a number or a number unknown.

• Elements Series: number of elements that make up the series.

• Name series (Series Name) - Create a unique name. Use only the English alphabet. If possible, use English, so translations into other languages ​​will be easier. Example: Italian "Lupo" We could show as "Lupo Canis lupus (wolf)."

• Name of the image file (Picture file names) - NOT embed images within your spreadsheet, use only text !. You can use a file name; image files must be sent with the ID and name of the file without special characters must be identical to what you wrote to NIF including the file extension (jpg, png). Please include only pictures without watermarks.

• Description (Description) - to display any additional information.

Greetings from Tarragona

Andreu Canuto "Pelacanyes"

[Dana-Levitas]

Thank you, Pelacanyes, good to read from you again and thank you for the NIF.

Do you mean you'd like to coordinate a Bookmarks category on Colnect?

My comments regarding the NIF:

1/ Catalog code -

a. I think a "Category" acronym is unnecessary, as all items on the catalog will belong to it.

b. Either way "Category"+"Country"+Number or "Country"+Number - are you sure that is enough information in the code to easily make unique catalog codes for each item?

2/ "Developer" - I think a more correct word would be "Company" or "Publisher" in this case. What do you think?

3/ "Topics (Themes)" should remain just "Themes".

4/ "Material type" should be just "Material".

5/ "Series" - are there known series with a known name?

6/ "Elements Series" => "No. of items in Series"

7/ What is the difference between a "Series" and a "Name series"? Do you mean the name of the bookmark?

8/ Are there any other fields you would like to add? The fields must be information that is important and interesting for Bookmark collectors. For example: known types of bookmarks, special features on the bookmark such as clip/string/added decoration/flap etc.

Please just answer my comments for now, no need to make changes to the NIF yet. I will update it as soon as we make some decisions and clarifications.

[Pelacanyes]

Hi everyone

I start to get a little time and can I charge this new category

Observations on:

1/ Catalog code -

a. I think a "Category" acronym is unnecessary, as all items on the catalog will belong to it.

b. Either way "Category"+"Country"+Number or "Country"+Number - are you sure that is enough information in the code to easily make unique catalog codes for each item?

The truth is that the country code and number would be simpler to work there. Maybe something to add bookmarks to identify more easily, such as the type of support include (cardboard=CB, plastic = PL ..)

2/ "Developer" - I think a more correct word would be "Company" or "Publisher" in this case. What do you think?

Perhaps it would be more appropriate "Publisher" using it in the broader sense, who commissioned the printing of bookmark.

3/ "Topics (Themes)" should remain just "Themes".

This was a bad move by the translator. Indeed, the themes would be used only to existing Colnect

4/ "Material type" should be just "Material".

Ok

5/ "Series" - are there known series with a known name?

6/ "Elements Series" => "No. of items in Series"

7/ What is the difference between a "Series" and a "Name series"? Do you mean the name of the bookmark?

Perhaps we could simplify it. "Series" was to identify if the bookmark belonged to a group or if it was a unique item (yes / no). We could eliminate the box "series name" and leave a box named "series" which could be filled with the name of the serie or left empty in case there's no serie. So "Elements Series" => "Number of items in the series"

8/ Are there any other fields you would like to add? The fields must be information that is important and interesting for Bookmark collectors. For example: known types of bookmarks, special features on the bookmark such as clip/string/added decoration/flap etc.

I do not know if there is a sufficiently high number of items to include special features such as additional fields. I think that, in the beggining, these features could be included in the description.

Greetings from Tarragona

Pelacanyes

[Dana-Levitas]

Catalog code - I think we can add "Publisher" to the catalog code. It would be:

Country+Publisher+Material+Number

for example: A plastic "Penguin publishing" bookmark from England will be

ENG-PP-PL-1

or if you'd like it shorter, it could be

Country+Publisher+Number

example: ENG-PP-1

Perhaps we could simplify it. "Series" was to identify if the bookmark belonged to a group or if it was a unique item (yes / no). We could eliminate the box "series name" and leave a box named "series" which could be filled with the name of the serie or left empty in case there's no serie. So "Elements Series" => "Number of items in the series"

OK, good.

I do not know if there is a sufficiently high number of items to include special features such as additional fields. I think that, in the beggining, these features could be included in the description

Do you think that more than 10 percent of the bookmarks will have special features?

[Pelacanyes]

Hi Dana

Catalog code - I think we can add "Publisher" to the catalog code. It would be:

Country+Publisher+Material+Number

for example: A plastic "Penguin publishing" bookmark from England will be

ENG-PP-PL-1

or if you'd like it shorter, it could be

Country+Publisher+Number

example: ENG-PP-1

I think that to include the publishers into the code would make us much more difficult the task. Only in Catalonia must be more than five thousand publishers, the number of them in all the world must be huge so, for the collectors, would be too complicated to make the NIF.

A code with Country + Material + Number , would be enough for the first clasification, and the collector could find more information through the navigation and filters.

I do not know if there is a sufficiently high number of items to include special features such as additional fields. I think that, in the beggining, these features could be included in the description

Do you think that more than 10 percent of the bookmarks will have special features?[/quote]

Only two of my bookmarks have an special característic ( 2 among more than 60) and, in the meetings, I haven’t seen any of them. Maybe we should know the opinion of other collectors that know this great world more than we do.

Greetings from Tarragona

Pelacanyes

[Dana-Levitas]

I think that to include the publishers into the code would make us much more difficult the task. Only in Catalonia must be more than five thousand publishers, the number of them in all the world must be huge so, for the collectors, would be too complicated to make the NIF.

A code with Country + Material + Number , would be enough for the first clasification, and the collector could find more information through the navigation and filters.

OK, then we will use the catalog code - Country + Material + Number

Do you think that more than 10 percent of the bookmarks will have special features?

Only two of my bookmarks have an special característic ( 2 among more than 60) and, in the meetings, I haven’t seen any of them. Maybe we should know the opinion of other collectors that know this great world more than we do.[/quote]

OK, so for now we won't add this field. I will ask a few collectors to comment here if they know about this subject.