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Originally Posted by jesscat
If you don't mind my asking, how do you use it for this purpose (to determine main characters/ships)? That might be sufficient for me.
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I have separate custom columns for ships, characters and other tags so in the first place, they're not just all jumbled together in the standard tags field.
First, I select books I need for metadata clean up. Then I go to bulk metadata edit and use a saved search that copies the first tag (or first few tags) to a custom column containing "normalized" values.
The method isn't 100% accurate (particularly with drabble collections) but it seems to work well enough for the most part.
Mind, even with the automation utilities available, AO3 tag wrangling still takes a lot of effort. I even use Excel+Job Spy for normalizing tags because with all the rules I have, my personal.ini would become unmanageable.