Quoting Patrick Conley <[email protected]>:
> The merge feature works great! It was worth waiting for. > > > Three questions: > > 1. What should happen with names that can be linked to different > authors, like: > > HABERMAS > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6171008A/HABERMAS > > The most famous namesakes is Jürgen Habermas, but what is with a name like > > HANSEN > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3445178A/HANSEN > > A. Hansen, C. Hansen etc. > > Should there be disambiguation pages (like Wikipedia got)? Usually the way you approach this (although it doesn't always work) is to see what books have been linked to the author and figure it out that way. So you look at the edition that has /HANSEN linked to it, and see if you can find another edition with that same title that has a fuller version of the name. > > > 3. How should be dealt with the amazon.com records, that have multiple > authors (mixed in one name)? > > "Jason Hook, Patricia Levy, Chris Oxlade, Sean Sheehan Nicola Barber" > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3692867 Yeah, these are a real pain. Obviously, each one of these should be a separate author. My gut reaction is that this needs to be edited to be only the first author listed, and if one wants to be really diligent the edition record would be updated with the other author names as contributors. Even *more* diligent, for those of us who have the heart of a cataloger, would be to find a library record for the book this is associated with, edit this Amazon name set with the author listed there, and then add the other author names as contributors. The reason for using the library selection is name isn't because it is necessarily right, but because libraries have rules for which name they select when there is more than one. That means that the odds are that the name selected by one library will also be selected by another -- by using that name, you are just using those odds in your favor. kc -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
