Series Year

[MichaelFitzurka]

Taking as an example: Doom Patrol (https://comicvine.gamespot.com/search/?q=doom+patrol)
There are several series called "Doom Patrol" - starting in 1964, 1987, 2001, 2004, 2009, & 2016.
Many spanning multiple years and each with their own issue numbering.

I assume the "SeriesGroup" for all of these would just be "Doom Patrol".

The "Year" value in the schema is for publishing year, so it doesn't identify alone which series it comes from.

Adding a "SeriesYear" to differentiate between multiple series with the same name could work.

Is there a different way to represent this distinction within the existing schema?
AlternateSeries of "Doom Patrol (1964)"?

[SenorSmartyPants]

This is typically stored in Volume. SeriesGroup would not be necessary. This is how ComicRack and ComicVine Scraper handle this.

[FibreTTP]

Could I please get confirmation that Year is intended for the release year of the book, and not the series itself?

Wondering whether the year of series publication should be included as the Year in each book of a series. See mansuf/mangadex-downloader#175:

While Kavita implies that only using the year means that the year defines the release date of the series, the official schema states that the all of the year, month, and day, are used as the release date of the book (i.e., volume, chapter -- whatever the .cbz file contains). (the year returned by MangaDex is of the series.)

[gotson]

it's the book's release date. The year of the series publication is not stored in ComicInfo, but can be inferred from the release date of the first book in the series.