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==What's New from 2007==
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===What's New - 13 November 2007===
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==Rules and standards changes==
  
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* Updated the download page with the latest database file. The goal is to have the file updated weekly.
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For a changelog of ISFDB data entry rules and standards, see the [[Rules and standards changelog]] page.
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* Exceeded 250,000 Title records not counting variant titles.
 
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* Bug fixes and software changes on hold pending Al's return.
 
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[[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 14:50, 13 Nov 2007 (CST)
 
  
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===What's New - 11 August 2007===
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As for software changes, see the subsequent sections below.
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* Updated the download pages with the latest database file. Otherwise, just wandering around to see what's changed or broken. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 19:10, 11 Aug 2007 (CDT)
 
  
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'''Reading''': {{a|Neal_Asher}} - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?198469 Hilldiggers].
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== Robotically identified ISBNs ==
  
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===What's New - 1 July 2007===
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* Manual submission of robotically identified ISBNs was enabled in July 2018 -- see [[User:Fixer/Public]] for the current process
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* Tried to upgrade the wiki to 1.10.0 this morning, but found that it will not run on php 4. Upgrading the host to php 5 is beyond my current permissions and access, so we'll have to wait on TAMU for help.
 
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* Started moving bug reports over to SourceForge, but got distracted by the WebBot attack and the MediaWiki upgrade.
 
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* I've been doing some testing of the site with the Windows version of Safari. Aside from ugly fonts and abysmally slow rendering times, it has different semantics associated with the back button than other browsers. If you approve a submission, for instance, and then use "back" to get to the moderation list, it actually tries to approve the submission again as you go through that page. Similarly, if I'm editing in the Wiki, and want to follow a link in the preview for accuracy, it requires responding to 2 popups to get back to the wiki again. No other browser behaves like this. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 07:48, 1 Jul 2007 (CDT)
 
  
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'''Reading''': {{a|Richard_Morgan}} - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?158032 Woken Furies].
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==Roadmap 2017==
  
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Completed projects are displayed using <s>strikethrough</s>. See [[ISFDB:Community Portal/Archive/Archive42#Roadmap 2017|this discussion]] for details.
  
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===What's New - 25 June 2007===
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* Language cleanup:
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* Things have been unstable at work since the beginning of the year, culminating in the layoff of 12 members of my team in March, and now the complete closure of the Champaign site. In response, I will be moving to the Austin facility by the end of August. I have to sell and buy a house, move our belongings, help find jobs for the laid off personnel, and still make progress on my assigned responsibilities. As such, my contributions here may be light between now and the end of August.
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** <s>Assign languages to all titles</s>
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* I've gotten an ISFDB project approved at SourceForge ([http://sourceforge.net/projects/isfdb/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isfdb/]), and will be moving the bug reports there over the next week. After that I will CM the Python source code there, which should help with the problem of having multiple people working on the code. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 21:34, 25 Jun 2007 (CDT)
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** Assign languages to all authors
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* Wiki cleanup
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** Move series/magazine-, publisher- and publication-specific etc Wiki pages to the database
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** <s>Add a "Note" field to author records</s>
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** Move Bio and Bibliographic data to the database
  
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'''Reading''': {{a|Richard_Morgan}} - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23374 Broken Angels].
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* Internationalization:
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** Support multiple prices per publication
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** Support multiple publishers per publication. May require more thought re: imprints.
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** ISBNs (mostly to support internationalization, but will also help in other cases):
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*** <s>Move catalog IDs to a separate field, which will help with pubs that have both an ISBN and a catalog ID, e.g. book club publications.</s>
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*** Support multiple ISBNs per publication
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*** Add two checkboxes next to each ISBN: “derived” and “corrected”. The latter will let us capture two versions of invalid ISBNs, the stated one and the corrected one.
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** Add support for translators (as well as other roles like single-author collection editors?)
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** <s>Move “Add Authors/Transliterated Titles/etc” buttons to the right to free up screen real estate. This will become more important with the addition of new multiply occurring fields (see immediately above.)</s>
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** <s>Change “Family Name” to “Directory Entry”.</s>
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** <s>Separate translations from VTs on the Title page.</s>
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** <s>Allow users to limit the list of publications to the ones associated with the canonical title.</s>
  
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===What's New - 13 April 2007===
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* New Projects:
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* So I drop out of sight for about 5 weeks and what happens? Well... a lot.
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** <s>Re-do verifications. This will let us have more than 5 primary verifications as well as multiple transient verifications per publication.</s>
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* We gained three moderators: [[User_talk:BLongley|BLongley]], [[User_talk:Mhhutchins|Mhhutchins]], and [[User_talk:JVjr|JVjr]]. Congratulations all, and thank you for helping out here.
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** Create a history of changes to primary-verified publications by storing a snapshot of the way each verified pub looked like right before it was changed.  
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* We exceeded 190,000, 195,000, and 200,000 titles in that time period, which indicates that a lot of data is getting integrated.
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** <s>Support for third party IDs (OCLC, BLIC, LCCN, BNF, ASIN, Goodreads, etc).</s> This will enable Fixer to submit ebooks without ISBNs, an increasingly common scenario.
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* We've integrated about 39,000 data submissions since the first of the year, or about 370 a day. There are now 100 people who have made edits.
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** Make the Quick Tags list user-definable.
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* About 5.5% of the publications are now verified. Holy crap! We were at 1 percent last time I checked. At this rate we'll be fully verified in about 4 years, but the verification rate is still climbing.
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** Cleanup reports:
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* The best part of the story is that people can drop out of sight for over a month, and the website not only continues on, but thrives and grows and improves. Kudos to everyone.
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*** <s>Make additional cleanup reports available to non-moderators</s>
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* I should be able to contribute for the next couple of weeks before I drop out again. I'll try to catch up on some of the coding bugs and features that have accumulated. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 19:52, 13 Apr 2007 (CDT)
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*** Review old/incomplete FRs for cleanup reports, add missing title types
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** Add a "printing rank" field to order multi-reprinted titles without pub dates
  
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'''Reading''': {{a|Peter_Watts}} - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?186521 Blindsight].
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== Software Changes by Year ==
  
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* Current year: [[Development/Recent Patches]]
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* Previous years: [[Development/Archive]]
  
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===What's New - 1 February 2007===
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== 1995-2009 Changes ==
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* Have started a massive refactoring of the editing and moderating code. Many bugs are associated with errors that have been fixed in one place but not another, or with behavior inconsistancies between different applications. Much of this is due to the slow evolution of the code, and now we have multiple different versions of routines that need to be modified whenever a fix is made.
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* [[What's New from 2009]]
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* We integrated about 7600 data submissions in January (about 250 a day). There are now 62 people who have made edits.
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* [[What's New from 2008]]
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* A little over 1 percent (1.15) of the publications are now verified. We're verifying about 500 publications per month. While that rate is higher than I expected this early into the feature, it will still take about 15 years to verify all of the publications at that rate. (I'm sure the rate will pick up as the data matures).
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* [[What's New from 2007]]
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* Updated the download pages with the latest source and database files. The source files include the refactored editing and moderating files, so they are not a direct reflection of what is currently online.
 
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* In response to the discussion on moving author biographies from Wikipedia to the ISFDB (see [[Talk:ISFDB_FAQ]]), I added link support for biographies to the author bibliographies, but have otherwise taken no action.
 
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* Addressed the following bugs: 10064, 10085, 10087, 10088, 10089
 
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* Addressed the following features: 90114
 
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===What's New - 21 January 2007===
 
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* Updated the Hugo and Nebula awards.
 
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* Exceeded 185,000 titles.
 
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* Addressed the following bugs: 20087.
 
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'''Reading''': {{a|John_C._Wright}} - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?155221 The Golden Transcendence].
 
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===What's New - 13 January 2007===
 
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* Rudimentary award editing tools are now online (for select individuals only), and we're now starting to catch up on missing awards from the last 2 years.
 
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* Addressed the following bugs: 10061, 10067, 10068, 10074, 10075, 10076, 10077, 10078, 10079, 10080, 10081, 10082, 20081.
 
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'''Reading''': {{a|John_C._Wright}} - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23833 The Phoenix Exultant].
 
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===What's New - 1 January 2007===
 
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* 2006 Summary: 2006 was almost certainly the most active year for the ISFDB since its early days in 1995/1996:
 
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** The most obvious change to the ISFDB in 2006 was the ability for the public to perform edits. About 29,000 edits have been integrated since April. Thanks to [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]], [[User:Grendelkhan|Grendelkhan]], [[User:Mike Christie|Mike Christie]], and [[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]] for most of those edits, as well as a ton of feedback on the editing system.
 
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** The wiki changed from a skeletal structure for holding the old ISFDB static HTML pages to a central facility for recording bibliographic notes, extensive help pages, bugs, magazine information, as well as requirements and design data. Thanks to the moderators for the ton of work poured into the wiki.
 
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** Numerous bugs were fixed and lots of new features were suggested and implemented.
 
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** We started to get public edits in the last week of the year, and we're already getting magazine and book information which has not been indexed elsewhere.
 
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** In 2007 we expect to ramp up the number of moderators and people making edits, and we'll add more community-related features.
 
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* Addressed the following bugs: 10069, 10070, 10072, 20004, 20010, 20011, 20015, 20019, 20020, 20021, 20026, 20029, 20035, 20036, 20047, 20059, 20061, 20062, 20064, 20065, 20066, 20067. 20070.
 
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* Addressed the following features: 90068, 90077
 
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* Updated the download pages with the latest source and database files.
 
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==History==
 
 
* [[What's New from 2006]]
 
* [[What's New from 2006]]
 
* [[What's New from 2005]]
 
* [[What's New from 2005]]
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* [[What's New from 1996]]
 
* [[What's New from 1996]]
 
* [[What's New from 1995]]
 
* [[What's New from 1995]]
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== New Wiki Pages and Areas Created in 2006 ==
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*[[ISFDB:Beta]] has begun and public data submissions have been enabled. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 22 Dec 2006 (CST)
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*[[ISFDB:Operations]] created. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 16:51, 20 Oct 2006 (CDT)
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*[[ISFDB:Policy]] has been updated. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 12:21, 19 Oct 2006 (CDT)
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*[[Sources of Bibliographic Information]] added to the [[Main Page]] -- in progress. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 10:28, 4 May 2006 (CDT)
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*[[Bibliographic Rules]] added to the [[Main Page]]. Discuss away! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 09:40, 1 May 2006 (CDT)
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*[[Bibliographic Projects in Progress]] added to the [[Main Page]]. A place to list ongoing cataloging and cleanup mini-projects. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 14:34, 1 May 2006 (CDT)

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Rules and standards changes

For a changelog of ISFDB data entry rules and standards, see the Rules and standards changelog page.

As for software changes, see the subsequent sections below.

Robotically identified ISBNs

  • Manual submission of robotically identified ISBNs was enabled in July 2018 -- see User:Fixer/Public for the current process

Roadmap 2017

Completed projects are displayed using strikethrough. See this discussion for details.

  • Language cleanup:
    • Assign languages to all titles
    • Assign languages to all authors
  • Wiki cleanup
    • Move series/magazine-, publisher- and publication-specific etc Wiki pages to the database
    • Add a "Note" field to author records
    • Move Bio and Bibliographic data to the database
  • Internationalization:
    • Support multiple prices per publication
    • Support multiple publishers per publication. May require more thought re: imprints.
    • ISBNs (mostly to support internationalization, but will also help in other cases):
      • Move catalog IDs to a separate field, which will help with pubs that have both an ISBN and a catalog ID, e.g. book club publications.
      • Support multiple ISBNs per publication
      • Add two checkboxes next to each ISBN: “derived” and “corrected”. The latter will let us capture two versions of invalid ISBNs, the stated one and the corrected one.
    • Add support for translators (as well as other roles like single-author collection editors?)
    • Move “Add Authors/Transliterated Titles/etc” buttons to the right to free up screen real estate. This will become more important with the addition of new multiply occurring fields (see immediately above.)
    • Change “Family Name” to “Directory Entry”.
    • Separate translations from VTs on the Title page.
    • Allow users to limit the list of publications to the ones associated with the canonical title.
  • New Projects:
    • Re-do verifications. This will let us have more than 5 primary verifications as well as multiple transient verifications per publication.
    • Create a history of changes to primary-verified publications by storing a snapshot of the way each verified pub looked like right before it was changed.
    • Support for third party IDs (OCLC, BLIC, LCCN, BNF, ASIN, Goodreads, etc). This will enable Fixer to submit ebooks without ISBNs, an increasingly common scenario.
    • Make the Quick Tags list user-definable.
    • Cleanup reports:
      • Make additional cleanup reports available to non-moderators
      • Review old/incomplete FRs for cleanup reports, add missing title types
    • Add a "printing rank" field to order multi-reprinted titles without pub dates

Software Changes by Year

1995-2009 Changes

New Wiki Pages and Areas Created in 2006

  • ISFDB:Beta has begun and public data submissions have been enabled. Ahasuerus 22 Dec 2006 (CST)
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