I wouldn't consider this even technically a box set.  It is a multi-disc documentary/compendium.

Box set definition:

The term "Box Set" is used to define any release that includes more than one film. The main examples are:.

Sets where each film is packaged individually, and held together in a package of some kind.
Sets where each film is on a separate disc, but not individually packaged. This includes gatefold Digipaks and 2-Disc sets in normal DVD cases.
Sets containing 2 films, one on each side of Dual-Sided DVD.

This is a single presentation of a compendium of raw, nearly unedited documentary footage of a single subject event, and nothing I would call seperate films.

That being said, I don't recall anything in the way of cast or crew credits (other than DVD credits) either.

If it has been set up as a box set - are there no child profiles available that contain the information you want?

You will find child profiles available for MOST of the NASA Archives series already available.

Skip

It sounds to me like a box containing multiple discs that each contain a number of "films".  Sounds like a boxset to me.  Actually it sounds closer to a TV set, but it all boils down to the same thing essentially.

I don't break my TV sets out by discs like many here do (each TV set is a single profile in my collection).  But I certainly wouldn't try to attempt to restrict others from doing so.  So I'm not clear what the problem is here.  If you don't like the way it's setup, fix it in your local database and let it go.  There's two sides to this and there's no way you can please both sides.

For the record, I don't have these sets.  So forgive me if I'm missing the point here.  But I have similar sets (Mysteries of the Deep and Mysteries of the Cosmos).  They're those cheap $10-$15 sets in the metal tin with 5 discs that each contain some documentary style shows on each disc.  I've broken mine out into separate discs and prefer them that way.  And I'd give the same answer on those.  If you don't want want to track them as "boxsets", then don't download the child profiles.  If there's data that you want or don't want in the profiles, fix it up and submit it if it follows the rules.  If it doesn't follow the rules, then keep it local.  You won't be the first and certainly not the last to have something different in your database that can't be contributed.  And with 3.0, I think your data will even show up, as you've entered it, in your personal online listing.  It just won't be in the master database in your preferred format.  So what's the big deal?

Well if this is just one long "film" spread out over multiple discs with no divisions others than spreading it across discs, then this is certainly something different than most box sets.  It would be more like a long film that is spread over both sides of a disc or over two discs.  In that case, I guess they shouldn't be treated like a box set.

Since I don't have these, it's probably time for me to step out of this discussion.  Thanks for setting me straight.

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I disagree with just about every way that Skip handles these, from production year to cast to whether it's a box set.  So I just do my own profile, lock it, and skip any Skip updates to them.

They are great sets though....I have a project of getting the astronauts to autograph their volumes (alas, can't do that for Apollo 1) and have accumulated a gorgeous set of memories in the process.  Met Wally Schirra last summer, and that alone was priceless.