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[FanFicFare] Metadata Management for Fanfiction

As requested by JimmXinu.

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Originally Posted by Amalthia View Post
I'm now curious to know how other people use calibre to normalize their metadata, only I'm not sure this thread is the place to find out?
There's a few examples on this page:
https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...dataManagement

Here's one I added (and use sometimes):

Code:
Removing redundant character entries
Some fandoms have characters of indeterminate gender (e.g. player characters in video games), and authors sometimes add both a general and gender-specific entry.

[defaults]
exclude_metadata_pre:
## Removes "CharacterName" if Male or Female CharacterName is already present.
 characters=~^CharacterName&&characters=~^(Male|Female) CharacterName
Also this, specifically for AO3:

Code:
More selective chapterslashtotal [Archive of Our Own]
For Archive of Our Own, this will display '5/10' in its entirety, but only '5' for '5/5' or '5/?'. Replaces the default 'Chapters' on the titlepage.

[archiveofourown.org]
chapterslashtotal_label: Chapters
titlepage_entries: seriesHTML,category,genre,language,characters,ships,status,datePublished,dateUpdated,dateCreated,rating,warnings,chapterslashtotal,numWords,publisher,description
add_to_replace_metadata:
 chapterslashtotal=>^(\d+)/\1$=>\1
 chapterslashtotal=>/\?$=>
For Mass Effect, I prefer to split Trilogy and Andromeda (they're literally in different galaxies, lol). But there's plenty of stories with ambiguous entries, mostly ffnet or before AO3 split it. So for these, I merge all the ambigious entries to Mass Effect, then check for a few Andromeda-specific characters (added as needed). If it doesn't match those, it falls back to Trilogy. Never got a miscategorization with this.

This could probably also apply to other fandoms, though I couldn't tell you of any off-hand.

Code:
## Splitting up Mass Effect into Trilogy and Andromeda 
 category=>^(Mass Effect - Various Authors|Mass Effect \d|Mass Effect - All Media Types)$=>Mass Effect
 category=>^Mass Effect$=>Mass Effect: Andromeda&&characters=~(Ryder|Jaal Ama Darav)
 category=>^Mass Effect$=>Mass Effect Trilogy

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