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#312 Additional Publisher fields

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2013-02-13
2012-05-03
Darrah Chavey
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As we get into more international publishers, it would be helpful to have regularized information about where a publisher is located. I request that we add a "Headquarters in" field to the Publisher record, as displayed in (for example) <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?6314">Companhia das Letras</a>. While adding this field, I suggest also adding a "Founded in" field, or "Years of publications" fields, which are generally useful information, e.g. when a book is submitted with a year outside the expected range.

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  • Darrah Chavey

    Darrah Chavey - 2012-09-15
    • priority: 5 --> 8
     

  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2013-02-13
    • priority: 8 --> 3
     

  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2013-02-13

    A Community Portal discussion suggested that a "Headquarters" field would be difficult to make unambiguous since the location of a publisher's HQs can change multiple times and larger ones may even have multiple HQs. "Founded" was felt to be a low priority addition. "Years of Publication" may be desirable to identify data integrity problems with new and existing pubs, but not a high priority

    Lowering the priority of the FR to 3 based on the discussion.

     

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