Quote:
Originally Posted by DaltonST
Use the 'Derive Genres' function in either CALM (recommended) or Quarantine And Scrub. DG uses Boolean Tag rules to populate #genre. Add a Tag for each DDC to your books, and a Boolean rule for each Tag in the DG Tag Rules table. Run DG. Done.
|
Ok, I got CALM installed and tried to use it repeatedly over the past few days, but I really don't understand what I'm supposed to do, and it's not working for me. I tried to follow the embedded instructions enumerated in the
Target Library tab, but the nomenclature used isn't familiar to me so I'm having a really difficult time understanding what it's talking about.
My libraries are named "Calibre Library", "Broken-Books", and the like, but trying to run
load all libraries looks like this:
Is it supposed to look like that, with 01, 02, 03 instead of full pathnames?
What does
Target Library mean? It seems to be used for different things, depending on where in the instructions it's being used.
And why don't the tabs named
Metadata tools and
Library tools function?
I wasn't able to find any
Derive Genres function, perhaps that's within the two tabs that won't open.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaltonST
Or, if you know SQL, simply upload your csv data into metadata.db using a SQLite tool, then run update queries using that new table matched against each book's custom column table value for DDC.
|
I don't know SQL, so I'd like to avoid yet another steep learning curve.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaltonST
LCC and DDC are obtained using ISBNs by the Library Codes plug-in. If the web source for LCC has no data for a particular ISBN, then nothing can be done about it except try another ISBN. Regardless, most Fiction ISBNs will find nothing.
|
I have the #lcc column and the #dcc and isbn columns too. 20,156 books, most (17,337) have isbn numbers, and most of those (13,184) have ddc numbers. But not one lcc number is present for any books, so I don't think it's a simple lacunae of data problem, more like something's wrong with the #lcc column. I do get a somewhat vague error message when running LC:
That seems strange, since the #lcc column is there.
Maybe there's something wrong with it, I don't know.