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Link a BookBrainz Author to their Work, write a short feedback of the interface

Due to BookBrainz being in beta and still a work in progress, some existing Works are not linked to their Author.

To complete this task you must find an exiting Work in BookBrainz with no relationship to an Author

Once you found a Work with no Author relationship, you will need to link them together. Do this by clicking "edit" on either entity's page (what's an entity?), find the "Relationships" section and add a new one. A pop-up will open and let you search for the other entity and select a relationship type: "Author wrote Work".

Finally write some feedback about the relationship interface: What was good, what was bad? Did something not work as expected? What would have helped you in your task?

To complete this task: submit the links for the Author and the Work, as well as the feedback (a simple text file or just writing directly in the task reply).

There are duplicate entities in the database; if you encounter such a case, try to choose the entity with the best data: accuracy and amount of information, and number of relationships.

If you cannot find the Author of a Work, you can create them. In the menu bar, select Add -> Author, and fill in everything you can, using web searches and for example Wikipedia. There are help tooltips for most fields, but if you are lost head to the help page.

However not finding the Author of a Work that already is in the database is very unlikely, do an extra search! Creating a duplicate Author will not qualify as completing this task.

Task tags

  • data cleanup
  • bookbrainz
  • no code
  • data entry

Students who completed this task

Nnisarg Gada, Nicu, ABCbum, Shahzaib, Swanup Swatul Swanup Swa, Shubham2607, name removed, aikansh044, Antara, Olivia, Kristen, RyanWolf, KEERTHI, Soumya, CODEin_JDB, AlexZvinca, Coder44, Subodh, Chiefgavz, Riverdale, FilipG, Iulia Dragoiu, Rishikesh, olivia_26, Maria25, Cristian10, Ludicrous, Leon, Xy, Mridul

Task type

  • assessment Outreach / Research
  • done_all Quality Assurance

Level

Beginner
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2019