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Roadmap: For the original discussion of Roadmap 2017 see this archived section. For the current implementation status, see What's New#Roadmap 2017.

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

Current year: Development/Recent Patches
Previous years: Development/Archive

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)

ISFDB:Operations created. Ahasuerus 16:51, 20 Oct 2006 (CDT)

ISFDB:Policy has been updated. Ahasuerus 12:21, 19 Oct 2006 (CDT)

Sources of Bibliographic Information added to the Main Page -- in progress. Ahasuerus 10:28, 4 May 2006 (CDT)

Bibliographic Rules added to the Main Page. Discuss away! Ahasuerus 09:40, 1 May 2006 (CDT)

Bibliographic Projects in Progress added to the Main Page. A place to list ongoing cataloging and cleanup mini-projects. Ahasuerus 14:34, 1 May 2006 (CDT)

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-==What's New from 2011==
+{{Isfdb-general-header}}
-See [[Development/Recent Patches]] for a complete list of software changes implemented in 2011.
-==What's New from 2010==
+==Rules and standards changes==
-See [[Development/Archive/2010]] for a complete list of software changes implemented in 2010.
+For a changelog of ISFDB data entry rules and standards, see the [[Rules and standards changelog]] page.
-===What's New - 16 May 2010===
+As for software changes, see the subsequent sections below.
-*Added the ability to view magazine series as grids
-==What's New from 2009==
+== Robotically identified ISBNs ==
-See [[Development/Archive/2009]] for a complete list of software changes implemented in 2009.
+* Manual submission of robotically identified ISBNs was enabled in July 2018 -- see [[User:Fixer/Public]] for the current process
-===What's New - 31 December 2009===
+==Roadmap 2017==
-*Highlights of patches r2009-23 through r2009-75 implemented between September 8 and December 31:
-**You can now remove invalid pseudonyms
-**You can now delete empty Series
-**You can now dissociate Series from their parent Super-series
-**Automated the addition of cover scans to publications
-**Edit Pub no longer allows editors to change constituent Titles if they also appear in other Pubs
-**Remove Title lets you remove all Titles, including duplicates and container titles
-**CHAPTERBOOKs have been re-enabled at the Title level to allow documenting standalone appearances of Shortfiction and Essays
-**Editors can cancel their submissions before they are approved/rejected
-**Magazine pubs now link to their parent Series (or to the EDITOR Title if it's not in a Series)
-**You can now search magazine titles from the main search box.
-**The Forthcoming Books page has been redone.
-===What's New - 8 September 2009===
+Completed projects are displayed using <s>strikethrough</s>. See [[ISFDB:Community Portal/Archive/Archive42#Roadmap 2017|this discussion]] for details.
-*Highlights of patches r2009-14 through r2009-22 implemented between July 29 and September 8:
-**Serials are no longer matched to their parent Novels/Shorfiction lexically. They now use the regular Variant Title logic. This eliminates many cases of incorrect behavior, e.g. when Hubbard's "To the Stars" was appearing on Heinlein's and Harrison's pages.
-**Split the "Title" search option into "Fiction Titles" and "All Titles".
-===What's New - 29 July 2009===
+* Language cleanup:
+** <s>Assign languages to all titles</s>
+** Assign languages to all authors
+* Wiki cleanup
+** Move series/magazine-, publisher- and publication-specific etc Wiki pages to the database
+** <s>Add a "Note" field to author records</s>
+** Move Bio and Bibliographic data to the database
-*Highlights of patches r2009-07 through r2009-13 implemented between July 1 and July 28:
+* Internationalization:
-**Implemented Advanced Publication Searches by Publisher, Price and Page Count
+** Support multiple prices per publication
-**Implemented Advanced Title Searches by Reviewed Author
+** Support multiple publishers per publication. May require more thought re: imprints.
-**Editors now see a "My Messages (new)" in the navigation bar when they have new messages in the ISFDB Wiki
+** ISBNs (mostly to support internationalization, but will also help in other cases):
+*** <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>
+*** 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?)
+** <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>
+** <s>Change “Family Name” to “Directory Entry”.</s>
+** <s>Separate translations from VTs on the Title page.</s>
+** <s>Allow users to limit the list of publications to the ones associated with the canonical title.</s>
-===What's New - 30 June 2009===
+* New Projects:
-*Patches r2009-04, r2009-05 and r2009-06 were installed on 20 June, 27 June, and 30 June respectively. Highlights include:
+** <s>Re-do verifications. This will let us have more than 5 primary verifications as well as multiple transient verifications per publication.</s>
-**Pseudonym Search fixed;
+** 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.
-**Reviews where the reviewer or reviewee are using pseudonyms or non-canonical names are handled better;
+** <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.
-**Submitting editors can see if their submissions are being held, and if so, by which moderator;
+** Make the Quick Tags list user-definable.
-**Errors in Advanced Author search have been fixed;
+** Cleanup reports:
-**Additional verification sources, including OCLC/Worldcat and multiple primary verifications are now supported;
+*** <s>Make additional cleanup reports available to non-moderators</s>
-**Support for creating and editing "Chapterbook" (chapbook) titles has been restored and improved;
+*** Review old/incomplete FRs for cleanup reports, add missing title types
-**Display of series pages has been improved.
+** Add a "printing rank" field to order multi-reprinted titles without pub dates
-===What's New - 14 June 2009===
+== Software Changes by Year ==
-*Development resumed as of May 2009. 4 developers are currently implementing minor changes while we are debating more far reaching proposals.
+* Current year: [[Development/Recent Patches]]
-*Patches r2009-01, r2009-02 and r2009-03 installed on June 4, June7 and June 14 respectively. Highlights include:
+* Previous years: [[Development/Archive]]
-**Empty Series eliminated; Short Fiction Series and Non-genre Series implemented
-**ISBN linking to Amazon, B&N and other stores fixed
-**Links to the sites hosting images that we have permission to link to added
-**All bugs and feature requests have been moved to [https://sourceforge.net/projects/isfdb/ Sourceforge] [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 21:44, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
-==What's New from 2008==
+== 1995-2009 Changes ==
+* [[What's New from 2009]]
-===What's New - 14 June 2008===
+* [[What's New from 2008]]
-* Editors now have the ability to export content from one publication record to another, and import as well. This can be used to copy magazine contents (UK vs US editions) or to copy collection/anthology content from one publication to another. Unlike cloning, both publications must exist before the import/export occurs, and no editing of the metadata is allowed while importing/exporting (makes the applications far too complex). You may still add content and page number information as you can with cloning. Look for the "Import Content"/"Export Content" links on the publication bibliography. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 16:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
-===What's New - 25 May 2008===
-* The ability to link reviews directly to the reviewed title is now online. If you see any problems related to reviews, leave a note on my talk page. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 10:45, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
-===What's New - 15 May 2008===
-* Backups of the ISFDB data are now available daily at [http://www.isfdb2.org/backups/isfdb-only/ http://www.isfdb2.org/backups/isfdb-only/].
-* Image uploading to the ISFDB wiki is now enabled. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 10:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
-===What's New - 11 May 2008===
-* Made the first version of the ISFDB Web API available for public use. See [[Web_API]] for more details.
-* [[User:Roglo]] check in a change to fix author's chronological bibliography.
-* I've created a script that trims old wiki pages from the database. The database is rather large now (about 2.3 gig) and the process of doing an SQL dump, gzipping the data, transferring the data to another host, unzipping the data, and loading it into another SQL database to create the backup files takes around 5 hours. Some of the pages have nearly a thousand revisions. The new script save the last 20 revisions for a given page, and deletes the rest. The revision history is still present, but the text associated with older revisions will be missing. We have the older versions backed up, so if there is some reason you need access to the text of an old revision, send me a note. The new database size is about 700 Meg, about 30% of the old size. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 16:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
-===What's New - 3 May 2008===
-* Added rudimentary publisher editing. This allows the ability to associate a Wikipedia entry, a web site page, and notes to a particular publisher, and have them displayed on the publisher page. This also allows the sweeping ability to change the publisher name across all publications that are associated with that particular publisher; as such the tool only shows up in the navbar if you are a moderator. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 22:22, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
-===What's New - 1 May 2008===
-* Added ability to search for a particular user tag. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 01:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
-===What's New - 24 April 2008===
-* Our ISP indicates that there will be some maintenance downtime April 25 at 10pm CDT. Their notice reminds of 2001 for some reason: "Engineering has been notified by internal monitoring systems of a RAM module failure in this system. We have scheduled a maintenance window on 4/25/2008 to replace the faulty RAM modules." Hope the pod bay doors open after they're done.
-* Currently working on getting the ISFDB source code uploaded to Sourceforge, and to complete the creation of a website to archive daily data snapshots of the ISFDB. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 11:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
-===What's New - 12 April 2008===
-* The ISFDB has moved from Texas A&M University to a commercial hosting service. I'd like to thank TAMU for 5 years of hosting the ISFDB.
-* The wiki has been upgraded to the latest version of MediaWiki. One of the associated changes will be the use of a captcha while logging in to reduce spambot activity.
-* There were a few changes need to move to the latest version of MySQL, Python, and MySQLdb. If you see any busted pages, leave me a note on my talk page. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 00:31, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
-===What's New - 2 March 2008===
-* Namespaces should be working now. All wiki pages have had their namespace id and titles modified via SQL queries. There are still a handful of Publisher pages that have unneeded redirect pages that still need to be cleaned up. ISFDB apps should also know about namespaces now as well. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 13:27, 2 Mar 2008 (CST)
-===What's New - 24 February 2008===
-* Exceeded 275,000 titles [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 09:03, 25 Feb 2008 (CST)
-===What's New - 20 February 2008===
-* Editing is now back online. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 18:52, 20 Feb 2008 (CST)
-===What's New - 17 February 2008===
-* ISBN searching is now available from the main navigation bar. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 06:48, 17 Feb 2008 (CST)
-===What's New - 15 February 2008===
-* Since Advanced Search is still hopelessly messed up (until it's redone), publisher searching is now available from the main navigation bar, and some new publisher bibliography pages are also available.
-* Awards editing functionality is now operational, although the navigation bar links only show up for myself at present. I plan on taking the tools on a shakedown cruise for a couple of weeks before turning the links on for everyone. Should happen around the end of the month.
-* Will start working on publisher bibliographies and editing tools next. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 21:26, 15 Feb 2008 (CST)
-==History==
 * [[What's New from 2007]]
 * [[What's New from 2006]]
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 * [[What's New from 1996]]
 * [[What's New from 1995]]
+== New Wiki Pages and Areas Created in 2006 ==
+*[[ISFDB:Beta]] has begun and public data submissions have been enabled. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 22 Dec 2006 (CST)
+*[[ISFDB:Operations]] created. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 16:51, 20 Oct 2006 (CDT)
+*[[ISFDB:Policy]] has been updated. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 12:21, 19 Oct 2006 (CDT)
+*[[Sources of Bibliographic Information]] added to the [[Main Page]] -- in progress. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 10:28, 4 May 2006 (CDT)
+*[[Bibliographic Rules]] added to the [[Main Page]]. Discuss away! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 09:40, 1 May 2006 (CDT)
+*[[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)