User:Herzbube

My interest in ISFDB

Being an avid SF reader, ISFDB of course is on my list of useful Internet resources, alongside other services such as IMDB or Wikipedia. Since I believe in community efforts, I have always felt a diffuse need for contributing something back to those projects that I take advantage of. Unfortunately, most of the time those projects have already passed the stage where I believe my feeble efforts could make any difference. ISFDB on the other hand has opened up for public editing rather recently, so I think that my help could still be of some use.

My interest in SF

I have been reading SF&F, horror and mystery stories since my early teens, but in more recent times SF has become the main focus of my interest. I mostly read for entertainment, currently I prefer older stuff from the 1940-1970ies. I also try to get a vague overview over the history of SF, but I have no real scholarly interest in the field. Although English is not my first language (I am Swiss), I almost exclusively read my books in English - otherwise I would not be here, I guess :-)

Goals

Enter my not-so-big books collection into the ISFDB.

Learn python and study the code that runs ISFDB, together with its DB scheme.

Contact

Skype name: patrick.naef

Snippets

From http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Help_desk#Cloned_Robots_-_Maybe:

Contento's emphasis was on preserving the link between the original (often magazine era) stories and the books that were based on them, so he typically listed the stories that fixups were built from. Also, some of his data had come from Tuck's Encyclopedia rather than from primary sources and Tuck wasn't always specific about series/fixup data. Ahasuerus 23:40, 7 Jul 2007 (CDT)