Hi Ricard, Library MARC records use birth and death dates to disambiguate authors with the same name. The problem is that some MARC records aren't that great, they contain mistakes, or are missing the dates. We also load data from non-MARC sources. We use some heuristics to try and guess if the author represents the same person or not. We're always trying to improve these heuristics. For example we should be looking at the type of subjects that an author writes about and see if the new book we're loading matches the profile of an existing author with that name.
-- Edward. On 20/07/10 00:59, Richard Light wrote: > How do I tell the system that one author (e.g. D.A. Roberts) is in fact > two different people? _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
