[Manichean]

Originally Posted by Alexires

Hello,

I realise that it is frowned down upon a newbie making a new thread, however I have searched google and this site for mentions of my topic of interest to no avail.

It is only if it perpetuates a discussion that has been done countless times before and/or repeats a topic that is easily found by searching the forums.

I have Calibre and it looks exactly like the program I need, with one flaw: I don't know if it will allow the editing of metadata remotely.

I have a massive library of Chemistry and Physics books, journal articles and chapter from books which doesn't contain metadata and the filenames are inaccurate as well.

As the library is far too big to catalogue solely, it would be of a great help to have others be able to open the files, read the title/authors/ISBN/etc. and then fill in the metadata for the file (either allowing Calibre to attempt to retrieve it from the internet, or manually).

Tell me, does Calibre allow this, is there a plugin which does this, and if not, where can I suggest it for future releases?

Remote editing isn't supported. You could put the library in a publicly accessible network location and let each contributor point his or her own copy of Calibre to said library, however, you'd probably enter a world of pain as soon as two copies connect to the library simultaneously. You may want to consider giving out small chunks of your library to correct the metadata on and reintegrating them into a master copy that you maintain locally.

Edit: Also, is there a way to add multiple users to Calibre so that I can limit access?

Do you mean locally or via the Calibre server? Locally, you can of course use your OS's account management to restrict access to either the Calibre library and/or Calibre itself. If you're thinking about the server, then each instance of the server can only have one user/pass combination. I don't know if it is possible to run multiple instances of the server in parallel.