[Developers] Fwd: [Data-modeling] Casting ISBN-10 to ISBN-13

[Brian Karlak]

Hello All --

Forwarded message from Jeff below.

Brian

Begin forwarded message:

> For some reason, I can't send emails to the lists today. Can you  
> forward
> this response for me?
>
> We had talked about having two properties for ISBN-10 and ISBN-13,  
> which
> would address this also; users entering data from a copy of a book  
> that only
> has the ISBN-10 would require less documentation. (Although we still  
> might
> need to document how to convert a nine-digit SBN to ISBN-10.)  This  
> was
> suggested on the developers list as well.  We'd still need constant
> gardening to validate that the right field has the right type of  
> ISBN, of
> course.
>
> Jeff
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com
>> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Brian Karlak
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:04 PM
>> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Casting ISBN-10 to ISBN-13
>>
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:00 PM, brendan wrote:
>>
>>> Please add to the ISBN-13 property document string something
>>> explaining what the difference is and how a user might find
>> an ISBN-13
>>> equivalent.   This, way when a user clicks on the ? button they get
>>> some useful help.
>>
>> Hi Brendan --
>>
>> This will be a "constant gardening" operation.  Every day,
>> we'll be looking for ISBN-10 and automatically converting
>> them to ISBN-13.  So as a user, you won't really have to
>> worry about it: just add either one, and we'll fix it if it's
>> the "wrong" format.
>>
>> Adding the docstring to the property is a good idea, nonetheless.
>> We'll add it.
>>
>> Brian
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