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Help enrich the BookBrainz dataset

BookBrainz uses 5 entities to represent books and their content. Currently, a user can only enter a handful of information for each entity. In this task, you will think of other types of information that could be added to each entity to have a more complete set of data .

To see what information we currently collect, click on each entity name to see the creation form: Author, Work, Edition, Edition Group, Publisher. Then ask yourself: "What other information would I want to collect for that entity?"

Keep in mind that any information BookBrainz collects must fit our licensing. We only store information with no copyright attached: no covers, no excerpts or content of a work, no biographies found on the internet, etc.

We expect a suggestion of at least 6 new fields for each of our 5 entities: Author, Work, Edition, Edition Group, Publisher. That is, a total of at least 30 suggested fields.

Leave a comment on the task or in a text file with your suggestions for each entity.

Task tags

  • bookbrainz
  • no code
  • research

Students who completed this task

Kapish, Trang Nguyen, RugvedDeshmukh, rckstrpanda, C1e0, Monika123, Jaykin

Task type

  • assessment Outreach / Research
  • done_all Quality Assurance
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2018