On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
That rarely works with Open Library records, because HANSEN or even HANSEN, JOHN is almost always a conflated record if there are no dates or middle initial present and the names are at all common. The first thing that needs to be done is tease apart the various authors that have been mushed together. Tom _______________________________________________ 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]
