Thanks, Tom. I took a quick look at a few pages of your list, and have 2 immediate observations:
1 - there are a LOT of corporate authors, and most of those will not have come in on library records (the ones on library records we moved to the "contributor" field). This makes me wonder if we don't want to do something consistent here -- moving these to contributor? Or are folks comfortable with corporate names in the author field? 2 - of the ones I looked at, a number have already been merged. (Yeah OL users!). You wouldn't by any chance want to update this list? (she asks sheepishly) kc Quoting Tom Morris <[email protected]>: > 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] > -- 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]
