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What is a Series?

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There's been some talk about series in a few issues, and my feeling is that the definition of a _Series_ is not exactly clear. It also highlights some problems: -...

gotson

Small Suggestions based on recent Data Model

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The UML diagram that was recently is looking good. Though two small things that might potentially be useful for consumers of the metadata: - Artist, would sit alongside Author, would...

Kussie

Table of contents

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Table of contents hasn't really been a thing in comic formats, some manga/comics I convert to cbz had a table of contents in their ebook format, would be great to...

Bitwolfies

Book Media Type & Multiple Series Possibility

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**WHAT**: Differentiate between trades, issues and omni's as a Book Type? **HOW**: The "Book" object could include a string called mediaType to handle this. **WHAT**: Differentiate between trades, issues and...

jakem742

Collected issues

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How will collected issues be handled? Comic vine handles them pretty awfully, making them their own series rather than apart of the series of issues they're collecting (example, https://comicvine.gamespot.com/transformers/4050-29903/, each...

Bitwolfies

should One-shots have no series or a series of the same name?

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At the moment in ComicVine, one shots are contained in a series of the same name ([example](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/seconds/4050-75753/)). Does it bring any value to have a series with a single book?

gotson

Reading List Data

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This seems to have been touched on briefly in #3, but doesn't seem to be incorporated into the data structure in any way. I want to propose a new link...

jakem742

**WHAT**: List of character appearances in book I'm unsure if this is something that could simply be chalked up to tags or collections, but it would be nice if you...

jakem742

Comixology

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**Website**: https://www.comixology.com/ **API**: not that I am aware of I created a very basic scraper for this site. https://github.com/SenorSmartyPants/Comixology-Scraper

SenorSmartyPants

External metadata files

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I don't know if this project is concerned with where the metadata file is stored, i.e. like how ComicInfo.xml is stored inside a compressed comic archive. If the project is,...

Telkhine