Thread: Editing Metadata Remotely
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Old 01-16-2011, 10:23 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Alexires View Post
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.

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?

Edit: Also, is there a way to add multiple users to Calibre so that I can limit access?
All I can think of is to split your existing library (Move selected titles) to a new <username>_Library (a right-click operation).
Now each user has "A" small, single-user library to work on.
When these become done, the user,quits Calibre and You merge their library into a New, "done-fixed-it-up" Library.

The reason for this convoluted scheme, is Calibre has no good way to merge-match any book that the Title or Author has been changed (even a case change) . Moving/copying and merging (re-)assign Calibre index numbers, so that is not a solution.

You might be able to have them edit a file created using
Code:
calibredb show_metadata --as-opf 1426 >foo1426.txt
where 1426 is the index number ( hover over the open in the book Details window to see #) of the book in the record and foo.1426.txt will be the matching file to edit.

Then (NOT TESTED. danger Will Robinson)
(read the command line interface manual section)

you might be able to use
Code:
calibredb set_metadata 1426  foo1426.txt
to update YOUR library
The developers may or have a better
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