Bibliographic Projects in Progress

This page lists ongoing bibliographic cataloging and cleanup projects within ISFDB. (For archived projects see here).

General Cleanup

1. Project:Data Consistency. A portal to coordinate efforts to identify and repair data consistencies, including Stray Publications, malformed ISBNs, etc.
2. Project:Data Entropy. A place to quantify the state of our data's quality and its changes over time
3. Project:Repair Awards. A list of mismatched Award records that need to be repaired by hand.
4. Project:Repair Variants. A place to track and repair duplicate or mismatched Variant Titles.
5. ISFDB:Verification_requests. For requests for verification of individual suspicious entries.
6. ISFDB:Data Consistency/Pseudonyms With Titles Titles by authors listed as Pseudonyms that are not variants of titles by canonical authors.

Cleanup of selected authors' bibliographies

1. Project:Nebula Grandmasters Cleanup.
2. Project:Hugo and Nebula Cleanup.
3. Project:Minor Award Cleanup.
4. Top 300 Most-Viewed Authors - 2005 cleanup.
5. Project:Recently Published Books Cleanup. Status of high priority authors.
6. Project:Author Names Cleanup. Cleanup of bad/duplicate names, pseudonyms, etc.

Author project pages exist or can be created for every author in the ISFDB. For example Author:Robert A. Heinlein is a page at which editors who are interested in and knowledgeable about Heinlein can keep track of work that has been done on maintaining Heinlein-related data in the ISFDB. The organization of information on a project page is up to the project team members.

Currently active author projects

This section lists author biblio pages for authors where work on the bibliography is actively going.

• Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
• Author:Graham Masterton
• Author:Michael Moorcock
• Author:Terry Pratchett
• Author:Tom Holt
• Author:Spider Robinson
• Author:Larry Niven

Cleanup based on genre and series

1. Project:Series Cleanup.
2. Project:RPG Cleanup.
3. Project:Comics Cleanup.
4. Project:Non-SF Cleanup.

As with authors, series project pages exist or can be created for every series in the ISFDB. For example, editors interested in the bibliography of Sheri Tepper's "True Game" books might document issues at Series:The_True_Game. Where a series spans multiple authors, as is the case with some shared world anthologies, such as Series:Thieves' World, the author project organization is not the most natural way to manage the data.

Computationally Intensive Scripts and Static Pages

1. Project:Static Pages

Other

Magazine projects also exist. Pages such as Magazine:Fantastic Universe Science Fiction provide an index to the individual magazine publications, but can also be used to keep track of the bibliographic verification work that has been done on those magazines.

• Adding Editor Records - I am currently working on adding Editor records to Magazines and at the same time creating Editor series. My list is from SQL I applied the August backup. I am doing about 10 to 15 records a day.--swfritter 14:11, 17 Oct 2007 (CDT)

• Magazine:Coven 13. The first issue has been verified, the rest should be done by 2008-07-20. Ahasuerus 13:31, 17 July 2008 (UTC)