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An [[IFID]] is a technical standard, similar to ISBN. An IFID is a unique identifier string of digits, letters, and hyphens that can be used by archivists, cataloguers, and so on to uniquely identify a work of interactive fiction, both for new and legacy works. See section 2.2 of the [[Treaty of Babel]]. | An [[IFID]] is a technical standard, similar to ISBN. An IFID is a unique identifier string of digits, letters, and hyphens that can be used by archivists, cataloguers, and so on to uniquely identify a work of interactive fiction, both for new and legacy works. See section 2.2 of the [[Treaty of Babel]]. | ||
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* [http://www.tads.org/howto/gameinfo.htm#ifids Bibliographic Metadata in TADS Games: IFIDs]. | |||
* [http://www.tads.org/ifidgen/ifidgen Online TADS IFID Generator]. Use this for ''new'' TADS games. For older games, you want to use an MD5 hash; see previous link. | |||
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Revision as of 11:40, 18 September 2006
An IFID is a technical standard, similar to ISBN. An IFID is a unique identifier string of digits, letters, and hyphens that can be used by archivists, cataloguers, and so on to uniquely identify a work of interactive fiction, both for new and legacy works. See section 2.2 of the Treaty of Babel.
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TADS
- Bibliographic Metadata in TADS Games: IFIDs.
- Online TADS IFID Generator. Use this for new TADS games. For older games, you want to use an MD5 hash; see previous link.
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