What is "Series" as a Library Genesis Data Objects?

"Series" is a data object used in Library Genesis to record series of publications, like a series of similar books by the same author or publisher.

A series of comic books is a good example of a "Series" object.

"Series" has the following main fields:

• s_id - Internal object ID of this publication series.
• title - The title of this publication series.
• type - The type of this publication series, com for comics.
• libgen_topic - Code of the topic name of this publication series. l, c, m, a, s, f, r corresponding libgen, comics, magazines, articles, standards, fiction, rus (fiction).
• publisher - The publisher of this publication series.
• date_start - The starting date of this publication series.
• date_end - The ending date of this publication series.
• editions - Links to "Editions" objects.

Here is an example of an "Series" object in JSON format:

"s_id": "140507",
"libgen_topic": "c",
"title": "Simpsons Illustrated",
"type": "com",
"publisher": "Bongo Comics",
"date_start": "2012-00-00",
"date_end": "2017-00-00",
"editions": {
  "217942": {
    "title": "Little Shop of Homers; Apu on Rigel 7; The Cask of Amontilla-D'Oh"
  },
  "217943": {
    "title": "The Paper Chase; The Dickens You Say; I'm Rubber, You're Glue"
  },
  "217952": {
    "title": "Catch of the Day"
  },
  "217959": {
    "title": "Hotfoot in the Park; Fort Knocks; Hot Air Buffoon"
  }
}

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