Recent Documentation Changes
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Date
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Topic Area
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Summary of Change | Program Changes |
| 27-May-2019 | PSEUD.CVT | Control flag of 8 added indicating series contains both fiction and non-fiction items | Complete |
| 4-Apr-2018 | Validation Control Flags | VALNOIMAGE added | Complete |
| 14-Jan-2018 | Validation Control Flags | VALNODATE added | Complete |
| 19-Oct-2017 | Book Review Records | Format clarified for cases where title of review is not title of book(s) being reviewed. | Complete |
| 19-Oct-2017 | Publication Details | Format of field for "items originally published as standalone items" relaxed to allow month/day to be specified | Complete |
| 19-Oct-2017 | First Appearance Notes | Section added on handling story paper combined reprints | None Needed |
| 2-Oct-2017 | Item Note Records | Support added for Item Background Note (EN) Records | Complete |
| 12-Sep-2017 | Validation Control Flags | VALNOSIZ added and implicit as part of VALREPRINT | Complete |
| 27-Aug-17 | Author Fields | Handling of names in quotes clarified | Complete |
| 24-Aug-17 | Author Fields | Documentation of uncredited and indirectly credited items adjusted to reflect removal of support for [anonymously] and [as by xxx] on first appearances. | Complete |
| 18-Aug-17 | Control Files | Added documentation of supplementary Abbreviations Control, Names Control, and Series Control Files as well as documentation of the Exception Files pseud.xxx, valnames.xxx and validate.xxx | None Needed |
| 23-May-17 | Secondary Names | Removed support for sb: | None Needed |
| 15-May-2017 | UK-Specific Notes | Support added for UK-specific notes that do not affect the US programs. | Complete |
| 21-Apr-2017 | Reprints under a House Name | Documentation clarified re: preferred approach if a story originally published under an author's real name is reprinted under a house name. | None Needed |
| 21-Apr-2017 | Multiple Items with Same Title | Added documentation of format using first line to disambiguate poems | None Needed |
| 21-Apr-2017 | Authors with Last Name & Extras only | Previous (unimplemented) proposal removed as superseded by support for non-breaking commas | None Needed |
| 4-Apr-2017 | "See under" series links | Documentation tweaked to clarify format | None Needed |
| 29-Mar-2017 | Titles & Subtitles | Style Guide adjusted to clarify handling of descriptive subtitles on book and item titles. | None Needed |
| 13-Mar-2017 | Non-breaking commas & spaces | Add support for non-breaking commas and spaces to the trigraphs table and add documentation to section on author names; remove problem solved by their introuction. | Complete |
| 12-Mar-2017 | "Title of" links | Removed support for ~08~title of~ records | Complete |
| 21-Feb-2017 | Series Author Names | Documentation tweaked to allow "*" to be the last author specified rather than necessarily the whole author field. | Complete |
| 19-Feb-2017 | Validation Control Flags | VALSERIES retired as now performed automatically; VALNOMISAUT added | Complete |
| Feb-2017 | Ambiguous Series Names | Documentation tweaked to show that a second divider is not needed before the disambiguating qualifier. | Complete |
| Feb-2017 | Handling of symposia | After discussions with Mike Ashley the meaning and use of the sy item type has been adjusted slightly and the documentation for groups of items enhanced. | None Needed |
| Jan-2017 | Ambiguous Series Names | Where the same series name is used for a number of different series, a numeric or alphabetic qualifier can be appended to the series name which will be suppressed in all but the series index. | Complete |
| Jan-2017 | Provisional Series | Support has been added for provisional series that are a placeholder in case we find other entries in the series but should not be listed as a series yet. | Complete |
| Jan-2017 | Adding links to Series | An additional field is now supported in SERIES.CVT to allow the specification of a URL to provide an "About" link. | Complete |