Request: Index certain linked work relationships for searching

The obvious one is "Contains" and maybe "Series" and there are some that shouldn't be.

Desired outcome and examples:
In my collection I have short story books and box sets of books or DVDs that have all the contained works added in work relationships. If I want to read or watch something specific a TinyCat search should give positive results for all the below searches, but does not. This would replicate the functionality of other library management systems where certain other fields are indexed for title searches (740, 246, 700$t etc.). For my personal collection this is just a minor inconvenience, however for a small library this is the difference between someone finding what they want or possibly getting a false impression the library does not have what they want.

Example 1: The father thing
Search TinyCat: serve the master (no results)

Example 2: Stanley Kubrick collection
Search TinyCat: clockwork orange (finds the book but not the DVD boxset)

Example 3: Incerto
Search TinyCat: fooled by randomness (no results)

Recognizing contains/contained relationship and putting a check-mark on items you have, albeit in a larger work, has been requested as site improvement multiple times on LT. Even when/if it is implemented, I doubt it would help in TinyCat searches since those are limited to your library only, not LT as a whole. What can be done at the moment is to include short stories, novels in omnibuses and such in comments and those would both appear in search and be visible as contents on the page for say short story collection.

Your examples are all from site-wide LT search, though, not TinyCat. Just saying in case you want to clarify before someone from staff responds.

>1 zetetic23: Thanks for your request. This may be something we visit down the road for TinyCat (and LibraryThing) searches. We'll be sure to announce it if/when we do!

>2 SandraArdnas: Your examples are all from site-wide LT search, though, not TinyCat. Just saying in case you want to clarify before someone from staff responds.

Those examples are all TinyCat searches of my library, probably the same if I am searching my own LT Library

>2 SandraArdnas: What can be done at the moment is to include short stories, novels in omnibuses and such in comments and those would both appear in search and be visible as contents on the page for say short story collection.

This would be a manual process though I assume?

>4 zetetic23: Yes, you have to enter them yourself, but it's usually available for copy/paste from somewhere. WorldCat records usually have contents of short story collections, for instance. On the plus side, relying on your own data is certain to include everything, whereas work-to-work relationships do not always have all the stories because not all have been entered individually.

I would be happy with the work-to-work because I don't have time to add all the data I might want, and if TinyCat is meant to server small one person libraries they do not have the time either.

It would be great if the "contains" relationship was also reflected on LibraryThing series pages.