Changing the work title to a uniform title is not enough. You will still have two work pages:
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9179990W/Münchhausen http://openlibrary.org/works/OL8772616W/Münchhausen What Ralf would need is a merge function for work pages and a delete button for false records. Both is not yet implemented (but hopefully will some day). BTW, there are still a lot of work and author pages linked to 0 books: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15330484W/Gottfied_August_Bürger's_Gedichte http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4064686A/Werner_Bürger http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4064628A/Werner._Bürger http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4118092A/Christoph_Bürger Cheers, Patrick Am 13.09.2011 20:21, schrieb Karen Coyle: > Libraries run into this problem frequently, and have developed > something they call a "uniform title". That is, they select one of the > titles, or create one if needed be, to represent all of the variations > of the work. That uniform title brings them together even though the > actual titles don't. It's an artificially created link between the > items. > > For reasons that I can neither explain nor defend, the Library of > Congress has chosen to give these works the uniform title > "Munchhausen." You may find a better solution through German > libraries. If you look at: > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9179990W/M%C3%BCnchhausen > > You can see three editions, each of which has a different title. So > you need to get the uniform (work) title into any editions that have > not yet merged. I looked at the edit page and I admit that it is a bit > confusing. The top box that says "title" should get the work title, > "Munchhausen". (Look at the edit page for editions on the page I > linked to, above.) The specific edition of the title is called for > further down on the page. If you have (logically, IMO) placed the > specific edition title in the upper "title" field the items will not > merge with that work. > > It seems that the edit page may need some clarification... > > kc > > > > > Quoting Ralf Stephan<[email protected]>: > >> Now that Lee has clarified what I meant (am I that >> cryptic geek?) let me point out that old works frequently >> have editions the titles of which can differ widely, and >> indeed I'm looking for a way to manually help that algorithm. >> >> However, let the example be Bürger's Münchhausen. Let's >> not dive into if this is really the original, simply assume it is: >> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24988779M >> >> This was not in OL so I created it as edition of the abstract >> "Münchhausen" work. Now, there are more editions I like to >> add to the work: >> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22319113M >> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22050216M >> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL12668689M >> >> and of course I want to delete the superfluous works and >> editions afterwards. So how would I do it? >> >> Regards, >> ralf _______________________________________________ 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]
