I have noticed that some migrated editions don’t have an author.
In the ogs era, some people, including myself used this approach: there was a Work type (somewhat similar to the Book type) which typically linked to the author. The author was then only associated with an edition, if mentioned in some other role, e.g. Copyright Holder.
As the Works haven’t been migrated, some editions are missing one of their most important bits of metadata. Also, they won’t show up under the Author credit list.
Recommendation…
Always search by the book title (as well as author)
Since those editions have to be edited, I really would like to be able to move the credits up and down. Because now, the author on said editions is at the bottom.
Ok, do you mean you want to drag and drop the credits? Like add a credit, choose Author, then drag it to the top of the list. I just want to make sure I understand this request.
It’d be useful to have the ability to re-order the main fields too, and have it preserve them in edits. Some fields keep their order, but some don’t, and some won’t let you order them with a raw edit.
Alternatively the data could be presented in a fixed, standard way that makes some sense. It’s better to have a logical progression of data presented on the Edition page to make it easier to read.
Agreed that having the ability to re-order credits would be great. Also images and URLs.
To be honest, that was quite disappointing.
I’ve started adding authors to my past contributions as instructed here, and noticed another thing that has gone wrong: on some anthologies and collections, the wrong Work has been migrated as the Book (usually one of the works included in them). I’m assuming these have to be fixed manually as well.
Can you give me some examples. I may be able to clean this up with a script.
When importing editions I made the assumption that an edition would always have a book and an author. So authors were skipped. I can restore those skipped authors on editions if a few of you think that’s a good idea.
Plus, most of the magazines that include short fiction. It’s a lot.
But I want to note that it is completely possible that these did not have a “Book” to import. From what I remember, in the beginning there was some opposition of considering collections as Works, and we didn’t start adding them until later. I don’t think magazines ever had Works for the whole magazine, just the contents.
Hey everyone, wanted to follow up on the issues raised in this thread. I’ve made three changes based on your feedback.
1. Missing author credits restored
I ran a cleanup script that restored author credits on editions where they were missing. If an edition was linked to a book with known authors, those authors have been added back to the edition’s credits. This covered about 36,000 editions. If you notice any editions still missing authors, let me know.
2. Anthology book links fixed
@auboisdormant — thanks for flagging the anthology issue. Editions like The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror were incorrectly linked to one of the contained works instead of the anthology itself. I’ve removed those incorrect book links on about 130 affected editions. You should now be able to link them to the correct book entry.
3. Credit reordering
@BadMoon — you can now reorder credits on the edit form using the up/down arrow buttons. No drag and drop yet, but you can move any credit up or down in the list. This works on all list fields (credits, dates, identifiers, etc).
Let me know if you run into any issues with these changes. thanks!
I don’t think the order of fields is being preserved from a raw edit, though. I’m using that a lot as a form of copy-to-draft, and it’s usually easier to do edits right there and then. The order shown of fields on the Edition page of those Editions that I’ve submitted within the last hour (after you posted the above) aren’t showing in the order of the serialised raw data. Although, if I pick one and go to raw edit, the serialised data does seem to be in the same order I pasted & saved it. It’s just not displaying the fields in that order on the Edition page.
Good catch. The credit roles on the edition page weren’t displaying in the same order as the data. This is fixed now — credits will show in the order you entered them. Your Scorpion Swamp edition should look correct now. Let me know if you see any other issues.
