internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

Make it possible to copy edition record.

Open
#2,137 5 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Affects: Librarians Lead: @cdrini Priority: 3 Theme: Editing Type: Feature Request
Dominant language
Python
Stars
6.7k
Forks
2k
Avg merge
2d 19h
Merged PRs (30d)
138

Description

## Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Frequently there are cases where I want to add an edition that is almost an exact copy of an existing edition record. It would be useful to have the ability to make an instant duplicate of a record so that one can copy the details and simply modify the differences.

## Describe the solution you'd like
Ideally, a button "Make Copy" would bring up a list of populated fields with checkboxes for user to identify which fields to copy to the new record. (Internet Archive ID always excluded, of course.)

## Proposal & Constraints

## Additional context
For example, this record exists for an IA copy: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2377707M/The_Book_of_Questions
This also exists in IA, but with no record on OL: https://archive.org/details/bookofquestions00stoc (now added)
All details are exactly the same, the only difference being the IA identifier.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.