Many thanks for your work. I see now you're considering works identical iff it's an edition of the same year, ie, the 1900 and 1904 edition are different works, and much more, the original (german language) edition and its translation. Is this correct?
Short of a manual version of merge, at least it should be clear when to expect an automagic merge, and I know of no documentation where I could find this (ah, where is that bot source, by the way? buried in the OL source presumably) Regards, ralf On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:04:21AM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: > I dont' think there's a way to merge them manually, but the two > differences in the editions that could be keeping them apart (and it > probably takes both of these to do that) are: > > title: > Diseases of the intestines; > v. > title: > Diseases of the intestines; > subtitle: > a textbook for practitioners and students of medicine > > and > > publisher: > W. Wood and company > v. > publisher: > William Wood, > > The publisher counts for less than the title, so adding the subtitle to > the shorter one may be enough for them to be considered the same work. > So I'd recommend editing the editions (and I'll not touch them myself so > we don't interfere with each other), and then wait a day or so (I don't > know if that's enough) and see if they come together in the work. > > kc > > > On 5/9/12 11:47 PM, r...@ark.in-berlin.de wrote: > > Karen, > > what triggered the complaint was this import: > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16621408W/Diseases_of_the_intestines?m=history > > > > but we had already > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL7882426W/Diseases_of_the_intestines > > > > I want to merge them manually. Is this possible? > > > > Regards, > > ralf > > > > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:00:14AM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: > >> Ralf, can you send an example? Publisher name should affect combining > >> editions but not linking editions to works, so I should look at this. > >> > >> kc > >> > >> On 5/9/12 9:00 AM, r...@ark.in-berlin.de wrote: > >>> May I ask if there is some progress in the possibility > >>> to join editions manually into one work? Even now, new > >>> works are added with the same author/title/year, where > >>> just a different form of the publisher's name causes it > >>> to be occupying a different slot. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> ralf > >>> > >>> PS: My condolences for having chosen PHP as a language. > >>> Maybe it's what makes the trees grow beyond reach? > >>> http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Karen Coyle > >> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net > >> ph: 1-510-540-7596 > >> m: 1-510-435-8234 > >> skype: kcoylenet > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > > -- > Karen Coyle > kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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
