XML:AuthorUpdate

Introduction

The AuthorUpdate submission updates author information for a single specific author.

Required Tags

The submission contains one required tag:

• Record - Specifies which author record to update.

Optional Tags

The AuthorUpdate submission also contains a number of optional tags. These tags should be used whenever an update is made to a particular field. If a particular field is unchaged, it should not be included in the submission. If a field value needs to be deleted (for instance a webpage is decommissioned), the tag value should be empty. The following tags are supported:

• Canonical - Should contain the author's canonical name.
• Legalname - Should contain the author's legal name, in Lastname, Firstname format.
• Lastname - Contains the author's last name. Used to set how the last names with multiple sections should be alphabetized, for instance "von Ruff" instead of "Ruff".
• Birthplace - Should contain the author's birthplace, in Town,State,Country format.
• Birthdate - Should contain the author's birthdate in YYYY-MM-DD format. If the month and day are unknown, YYYY-00-00 should be used.
• Deathdate - Should contain the author's deathdate in YYYY-MM-DD format. If the month and day are unknown, YYYY-00-00 should be used. If the author is known to be dead, but the deathdate is unknown 0000-00-00 is acceptable.
• Emails - Should contain a list of the child tag Email, which should contain the author's email addresses. There should be a separate Email tag (enclosed within a single Emails tag) for each email address.
• Webpages - Should contain a list of the child tag Webpage, which should contain the author's website URL. There should be a separate Webpage tag (enclosed within a single Webpages tag) for each website.
• Wikipedia - Should contain the URL to the author's Wikipedia article.
• Imdb - Should contain the URL to the author's IMDB filmography.
• Image - Should contain the URL to an author picture.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<IsfdbSubmission>
  <AuthorUpdate>
    <Record>347</Record>
    <Subject>David Duncan</Subject>
    <Submitter>ErnestoVeg</Submitter>
    <Birthdate>1913-02-17</Birthdate>
    <Deathdate>1999-12-26</Deathdate>
  </AuthorUpdate>
</IsfdbSubmission>