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===Short Term===
 
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* Check [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?906985 Out of the Dark]'s ISBN when it comes out
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* {{A|Scarlett St. Clair}} - [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18145334.Scarlett_St_Clair Goodreads]
 
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* Investigate ISBN 8497890574 - ''The Children's Golden Library (11 Volume Set)'' (2003?)
 
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* Check whether 9781911490944 is non-genre in 2019-08
 
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* Check 9780857668295 in 2019-08
 
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* Check 9780857668110 in 2019-08
 
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* Check 9781784969790 in 2019-08
 
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* Check [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?717144 this pub] and its cover image in July
 
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* Check 9781984814715 and 9781784969554 in July
 
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* Check the final titles of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?54186 the Shadowspell Academy books] once hey have been published; preliminary covers look almost identical
 
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* Reconcile [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QJ6J2MS ''War of the Angels'']
 
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* Enter [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/178496929X/isfdb-21 ''Inferno! Volume 3''] once the final cover becomes available
 
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* Enter [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/178496932X/isfdb-21 ''The Rulers of the Dead''] once the final cover becomes available
 
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* Update [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?706296 William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!] once the cover has been finalized
 
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* Enter 9781943813872 once it has been published
 
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* Enter 9781368041515 (Star Wars: Pirate's Price) once the cover has been sorted out and the publication date has been confirmed
 
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* Enter 9781784968939 (Knights of the Empire, Warhammer Chronicles) once the cover has been finalized
 
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* Reconcile [https://www.amazon.com/Beast-Arises-Warhammer-40-000/dp/1784968463 The Beast Arises] omnibuses and [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1784968358 Tyrion & Teclis] once the final covers are known.
 
  
 
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* Investigate {{A|Bobby Akart}}
 
* Reconcile Benjamin Medrano
 
* Reconcile Benjamin Medrano
 
* Reconcile Skyler Grant
 
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* Reconcile {{A|Michael Robertson}} with his Web site
 
* Reconcile {{A|Michael Robertson}} with his Web site
 
* Reconcile {{A|E. M. Foner}}
 
* Reconcile {{A|E. M. Foner}}
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* Reconcile {{A|Jennifer St. Clair}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Jennifer St. Clair}} with [https://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-St.-Clair/e/B001JOTZ3O Amazon]
 
* Reconcile {{A|Darren Hultberg, Jr}} with [https://www.amazon.com/Darren-Hultberg-Jr/e/B079FKXDQT Amazon]
 
* Reconcile {{A|Darren Hultberg, Jr}} with [https://www.amazon.com/Darren-Hultberg-Jr/e/B079FKXDQT Amazon]
 
* Reconcile {{A|Stefon Mears}} with Amazon
 
* Reconcile {{A|Stefon Mears}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile Flame Tree's [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?4334 Gothic Fantasy] pub series with Amazon
 
* Reconcile Flame Tree's [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?4334 Gothic Fantasy] pub series with Amazon
 
* Reconcile {{A|Ali Cross}} with Amazon
 
* Reconcile {{A|Ali Cross}} with Amazon
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* Check 9781442430563 in 2018-11 -- confirm existence and price ($17.83?)
 
 
* Reconcile {{A|Darius Brasher}}'s three related superhero series with Amazon
 
* Reconcile {{A|Darius Brasher}}'s three related superhero series with Amazon
 
* Reconcile {{A|Kal Spriggs}} with [https://kalspriggs.com/ his Web site]
 
* Reconcile {{A|Kal Spriggs}} with [https://kalspriggs.com/ his Web site]

Latest revision as of 14:06, 10 October 2022

Current status: Active. Please feel free to leave a message on my Talk page or, in case of technical difficulties, e-mail me at (user name:) ahasuerus (domain:) email.com.

Background

I began helping Al von Ruff with ISFDB design in 1995. I also helped with the original ISFDB testing/data entry and provided bibliographic data for John Clute/John Grant's The Encyclopedia of Fantasy in the mid-1990s, but gafiated in the late 1990s-early 2000s. After re-emerging in mid-2005 and upgrading numerous SF articles on Wikipedia, I have been active as an ISFDB moderator, administrator and tester since moderator editing was enabled on May 1, 2006. I wrote the original ISFDB:Policy and created the Sources of Bibliographic Information page back in 2006.

Current responsibilities

I have been the acting ISFDB administrator responsible for software development, server maintenance, the backups and so on since 2009. I also maintain User:Fixer, a data cleanup/import robot.

In the mid-late 2000s I worked on verifying my collection of some 20,000 speculative fiction books and magazines. Unfortunately, many of my verified publications are currently in boxes and hard to access.

To Do List

Short Term

Test

Long Term

Data Cleanup and Scripting

  • Change "Locus Poll Award" to "Locus Poll" and "British Science Fiction Award" to "British Science Fiction Association Award"
  • Find all Titles whose Synopsis and/or Note fields contain %%, a remnant of the pre-ISFDB-2 days
  • Write a script to cache cover scans
  • Find all titles that differ from similar titles for the same author due to capitalization
  • Replicate Contento's list of most frequently reprinted stories?
  • In each magazine issue, find all fiction titles whose title_title is identical - will help identify suspected Interior art titles entered as fiction
  • Post a list of bad prices, starting with "None" and including the name of the Verifier
  • Find all VTs whose title records are identical
  • Find all Titles whose date is after the Author's death date
  • Find all Magazine Titles that have more than 1 Publication record associated with them
  • Find all Publications whose contents do not match the Publication type:
    • Anthology/Collection/Omnibus Pubs with 0 or 2+ Anthology/Collection/Omnibus Title records
    • Novel Publications with 0 or 2+ Novel Title records
    • Novel Publications with <100 pages
    • Publications with 2+ occurrences of the same Title ID
    • Publications with 0 Title records
    • Magazines and Fanzines with zero or 2+ Editor record
  • Check Author names - canonical and legal - for formatting problems
  • Check Titles and Publications for more than 1 capital letter in a row
  • Find identical Titles and Publications

Coding

  • Moderator warnings column in the approval screen:
    • Missing spaces (e.g. "X.Y.Author") in author names
    • Irregular page numbers (ampersands etc)
    • Merging different title types, e.g. Essay and Collection
  • Double quotes to single quotes: Edit Title, Edit Pub, Clone Pub (pub level only?), Edit Award (currently inactive). Change regular and advanced Author searches to display a warning when trying to search using double quotes

Possible Additional Data Elements

  • Printing number
  • A new "fixup" relationship similar to the "Contents" relationship
  • "Roles" for non-anthology/magazine editors, dust jacket designers, translators, etc.
  • Separate city and publisher
  • "Bibliography of XYZ"
  • Character names (requested on rec.arts.sf.written)

Library Topics to search

  • Alien abduction -- Juvenile fiction. 180 2008-04-13
  • Alien abduction -- Fiction. 1450 2008-04-10
  • Alternative histories (Fiction). 18579 2008-0413
  • Androids - Fiction 2841 (2341?) 2008-0426
  • Animals, Mythical -- Juvenile fiction. 5160 2008-04-13
  • Anti-Utopias. 21 2008-04-14
  • Apocalyptic fantasies. 931 2008-04-15
  • Area 51 (Nev.) -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Area 51 (Nev.) -- Fiction. 521 2008-07-12
  • Artemis (Greek deity) -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Astral projection -- Fiction. 1233 2008-04-24
  • Atlantis -- Fiction. 3198 2008-04-21
  • Atlantis (Legendary place) -- Fiction. 10399 2008-04-22
  • Cartoons and comics -- Fiction.
  • Dragons -- Fiction. 49582 2008-04-23
  • Dystopias 22075 2008-04-25
  • Dystopian fiction 15 2008-04-25
  • End-of-the-world fantasies 206 2008-05-01
  • End of the world -- Fiction. 10677 2008-05-04
  • Epic fiction.
  • Extrasensory perception -- Juvenile fiction. 3409 2008-04-28
  • Extrasensory perception -- Fiction. 9793 2008-04-28
  • Extraterrestrial anthropology -- Fiction.
  • Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction. 16341 2008-04-28
  • Extraterrestrial beings -- Juvenile Fiction.
  • Fairies -- Fiction. 30974 2008-04-27
  • Fairies -- Juvenile literature.
  • Fantastic fiction. Python
  • Fantasy Fiction. Python
  • Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism. 10248 2008-07-13
  • Ghosts -- Fiction 41536 2008-04-16
  • Ghost stories Python
  • Ghost stories, English History and criticism. 1242 2008-04-28
  • God -- Proof -- Fiction.
  • Hades (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
  • Haunted Houses -- Fiction. 13437 2008-05-07
  • Horror fiction Python
  • Human-alien encounters -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Human-alien encounters -- Fiction. 17974 2008-05-05
  • Human evolution -- Fiction. 2787 2008-05-08
  • Imaginary creatures -- Fiction. 1488 2008-04-17
  • Imaginary creatures -- Juvenile Fiction.
  • Imaginary places -- Fiction. 5998 2008-04-17
  • Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction. 17958 2008-04-30.
  • Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction. 18983 2008-04-29
  • Interstellar communication -- Fiction.
  • Jinn -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Jupiter (Planet) -- Fiction. 1745 2008-04-10
  • Life on other planets -- Fiction. 60090 2008-04-30
  • Magic -- Fiction. 5927 2008-05-08 Partial, needs Pyhton
  • Magicians -- Fiction.
  • Manned space flight -- Fiction.
  • Monsters -- Fiction.
  • Monsters -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.
  • Nanotechnology -- Fiction.
  • Occult Fiction 57120 2004-04-18
  • Poseidon (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
  • Psychic ability -- Fiction.
  • Rejuvenation -- Fiction.
  • Robots -- Fiction.
  • Saturn (Planet) -- Fiction
  • Science fiction. Python
  • Science fiction -- Authorship.
  • Science fiction, American.
  • Space and time -- Fiction. 29302 2008-04-26
  • Space colonies -- Fiction.
  • Space ships -- Fiction.
  • Space warfare -- Fiction.
  • Star Trek fiction.
  • Talismans - Fiction
  • Time travel -- Fiction.
  • Titans (Mythology) -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Utopian fiction
  • Vampires -- Fiction
  • Voyages, Imaginary. 49213 2008-07-12
  • Witches -- Fiction. 26935 2008-05-09 Partial, needs Python
  • Zeus (Greek deity) -- Fiction.

Amazon categories to monitor

  • Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
  • Books › Romance › Gothic
  • Books › Romance › Time Travel
  • Books › Romance › Vampires
  • Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Fantasy & Adventure
  • Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Horror
  • Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Science Fiction
  • Children's Books > Literature > Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths > Greek & Roman
  • Children's Books › Literature › Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths › Stories
  • Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
  • Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Spine-Chilling Horror
  • Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Superheroes
  • Children's Books › Series › Fantasy & Adventure
  • Children's Books › Series › Horror
  • Children's Books › Series › Science Fiction
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Dark Fantasy
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Ghosts
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Erotic
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Occult
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Vampires
  • Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Mythology > Children's Books > Greek & Roman
  • Teens > Literature & Fiction > Adventure & Thrillers (a lot of SF)
  • Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
  • Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Horror
  • Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction

Amazon subjects to monitor

  • Fantasy fiction
  • Romance - Fantasy
  • Romance: Gothic
  • Romance - Gothic
  • Romance - Paranormal
  • Vampires
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