I am, yes. I loaded the ~6.9 million author records from April's dump into MySQL, did a "GROUP BY slug" (where slug is the author name in lower case, without spaces and punctuation) and got "shirleyinstitute/wirajointconference1977manchestereng": 10047.
I then searched for Shirley institute 1977 as an author on the website and got 10,047 hits. And I still do: http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=shirley+institute+1977 Second in the list of slugs is colloquyoneuropeanlaw1981messinaitaly: 2368 http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=colloquy+1981+messina Ben On 9 May 2012 23:44, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > This is rather odd. When I look up Shirley institute as an author and > find the 1977 joint conference I get 2 work titles, each that has only 1 > edition. Ben, are you working with the dump? > > kc > > On 5/9/12 6:05 AM, Ben Companjen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Although I found 341 duplicates of President Clinton a lot yesterday, >> there is still the "author" that goes by the name "Shirley >> Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)". There are a >> whopping 10,047 authors with that name! Merging those manually is only >> for those who desperately need an extremely boring task :) >> >> Looking at the subject and book titles in the search results, I think >> one MARC record was imported many times without duplicate detection, >> so merging the authors would still leave some 10000 duplicate >> works/editions. >> >> Any idea how to best solve this? >> >> Ben >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] _______________________________________________ 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]
