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Originally Posted by TheMadGuy
With creating standards (not to call it "rules") everyone fills the fields with the same system and everyone could profit from.
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A nice thought, but good beware me for standards in metadata like Amazon use to have. I spend a lot of time in editing metadata and my trust in swarm intelligence metadata isn't really the best - especially if I need to spend more time in cleaning up the "swarm mess" as it takes to do the job manually only once. There are some good sources available but none of them are in general good sources for all kind of publications and provided languages.
For the range of essential metadata I think, calibre already have more as of what most publisher want to publish in their books. Sure, I wonder too about things like not provided standard information for series and so on, but in calibre I can do everything I want to do. If I want to implement the complete Dublin Core Standard, there is nothing what prevent me to do it. (Well, maybe only my own mental fantasy in imagine of all possible potentialities what the program provides.
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