ISFDB:Data Consistency
The Data Consistency project is a place to coordinate efforts to identify and repair data consistencies, including Stray Publications, malformed ISBNs, etc.
Publication Records
Invalid characters in Publication titles
- ISFDB:Invalid characters in Publication titles 14 as of 2007-11-27. Ahasuerus 19:36, 9 Dec 2007 (CST)
Missing data
- Need a script that finds missing data, e.g. missing page counts, missing pb/tp/hc data, 0000-00-00 dates, etc.
Titles
Safe to auto-merge identical titles?
Related to the Gardner Dozois collection was that for nearly all of the titles I found had two title records that were identical other than one was a parent of the other. If it seems safe it seems it would safe some work to to do a sweep for title records that are identical and to auto-merge them. Marc Kupper 22:25, 22 Dec 2006 (CST)
Tags
It would be nice to standardize user-generated tags.
Synonyms
- hard science fiction
- hard sf
- history of sf
- history-of-sf
- juvenile sf
- juvenile-sf
- recursive sf
- meta sf
- 'young-adult humorous sf' -> 'humorous sf' + 'young-adult sf'
etc etc
some one should probably come up with a standard then make some filters for input and run the filters on the existing tags.
Authors
Title vs. Publication Type Consistency
This section documents mismatches between Title types and associated Publication types:
- Collections:
- Novels:
- Non-fiction:
- Other:
- Non-genre mismatches
- Serial mismatches
- Omnibus mismatches
- Anthology mismatches
- Editor mismatches
Pseudonyms in Collections
The following page lists all known Collection Publications that include pseudonymous Titles as of the August 11, 2007 backup. Although this is not always indicative of an error, we estimate that a significant percentage of these occurrences need to be fixed.
- Pseudonyms in Collections NEW as of 2008-05-06
Serial Dates
The following page lists all known Serial records whose Title dates do not match the dates of the Publications that they appeared in as of the 2008-02-10 backup.