User:Fixer/Development Tasks

Amazon and friends

• Check books published by "Telos" in 2009 and 2010
• Capture Amazon CA
• 2 sources for AU data
• Combine US/UK/CA/AU records and upgrade the logic to submit the resulting composite records intelligently
• Upgrade notes/modnotes
• Add support for "creators", e.g. Role="Editor" and Role="Illustrator"
• Create a request for the response group that includes illustrators
• Listmania
• Redo Authors
• Reformat Subjects, RejectReasons and SuspendReasons

Other

• Australian sources -- some 20,000 records have been captured, but I still need to parse them before Fixer can create submissions.
• Correct _S* and _A* URLs
• Move non-genre authors to Biblioholics
• Grab LOCIS, Melvyl, the British Library, etc using subject headings
• Scan Locus Online's ISBNs
• Library catalogs -- a number of major catalogs have been captured, but the data will require a lot of massaging before it is ready to be submitted. Suffice it to say that there are well over a thousand meaningful fields in the most popular standard for catalog records. Although not all of them are required for our purposes, many need to be included in Moderator Notes since they may facilitate the decision-making process at approval time. (And then there are catalogs with non-standard formats or no formatting at all, but that's a whole different headache.)

Done

• Books/magazines with ISBNs published prior to 1966 are now auto-suspended
• Authors with no spaces between the initials, e.g. "H.G. Wells", now have a space added (i.e. "H. G. Wells") at submission creation time
• Amazon US records are now marked as submitted when their related Amazon UK record is submitted and v.v.
• If there is more than one pre-existing book length Title (with the same Authors) on file, auto-merge is no longer attempted
• Books marked as "westerns" are now automatically rejected
• Books scheduled to appear in 2010 and October-December 2009 are now automatically suspended
• Books marked as "Abandoned" by Amazon UK are now automatically suspended
• Books with "Manga" in the title are now automatically suspended
• Merged the two eligibility checks so 999 and 555 ISBNs are always suspended
• Fixer now uses ISBN-13 for books published in 2008 and later
• Made the author field mandatory. It now uses "uncredited" instead of leaving it blank.
• Amazon-provided formats (e.g. "Large Print") are now added to Notes. "Bargain Price" is ignored.
• Added a big warning when the book is marked "Import" by Amazon.com
• Rejected all maps, "*.exe"s, calendars and NTSC
• Fixer will now use "MP3 Audio" and "CD" as the binding if no other binding information is available
• Fixed apostrophe/quotes
• Removed "General" and "General AAS" browse nodes from the mod notes
• Changed the logic to automatically merge Amazon's accent-less records for "China Miéville" and similar authors
• Implemented automatic merging with pre-existing titles