This list is helpfull, but the work has still to be done by hand: For example http://www.freebase.com/view//m/05whw9w
Freebase: Ann Williams (b. 1938), aka Ann Williams Gascon Mergeing: "Ann Williams-Gascon" (no year of birth, no bio) with "Williams, Ann." (no year of birth, no bio) You first have to check all (!) 13 works of Ann Williams. Am 13.02.2011 02:34, schrieb Tom Morris: > 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 Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
