When you merge an author on Open Library, I believe there is a bot which runs afterward to try to merge works that belong to any/all merged authors. You can see though, that "WorkBot" doesn't run consistently yet:
http://openlibrary.org/people/WorkBot We're hoping to provide an interface similar to the author merge to merge both works and editions at some point. No ETA yet, I'm afraid. g On 9/13/11 1:27 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > I don't know if there is an automated work-merging function. I hope > someone else can say if there is. I'm pretty sure that there is an > automated function that merges editions into works after they have > been edited. > > kc > > > Quoting Patrick Conley<[email protected]>: > >> 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] >> > > > _______________________________________________ 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]
