I've been totally unsuccessful in getting any of the OpenLibrary staff interested in the list of duplicate authors that I generated last spring, so I've decided to open it up to the community.
I've modified my duplicate listing program to automatically generate an OpenLibrary author merge URL with all the duplicate IDs. If you are logged in to OpenLibrary and you click on the URL, it will take you to the author merge dialog page where you can select which authors should be merged, which one should be the master, etc. Please note that this is a *power* tool and should be used with great care. There *are* errors in the listing of duplicates, so you should review carefully the set of authors that are being proposed for merger to make sure it's accurate. I've done the first 50 or so, so you'll want to skip ahead in the list to find some that still need work. I'll see if I can enhance the program to skip authors who have already been processed, but for now if you click a link and end up on a page with just one author (or zero authors), that means someone else already took care of this author. Don't worry about running out of work, there are over 7,000 sets of duplicates (with 20K total records), so there'll be plenty for everyone to work on. Here's the tool: http://ol-dupes.freebaseapps.com/ Play carefully! 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]
