There was a similar discussion in March, "merging editions", which you can read back here [1].
At least, I think it is, as the terms "work" and "edition" in this thread seem to be mixed up some times ;) An Open Library Work (generally) keeps all editions of a creative work (different formats, years of publication, revisions, publishers, languages etc.) together. When a book is a collection of stories/creative works, that's a different OL Work. Except for the OL Editions that are exactly the same (and do not all have a scanned version attached, see recent discussion "multivolume works" [2]), I think you mean that you want to merge Works instead of Editions. As far as I know, only Works have been merged by bots, and the bots don't do that automatically. The [1] discussion ended with Anand saying no mergebot was running. I would like a possibility for merging works manually too, similar to the author merge functionality. J.K. Rowling's page could use a little cleaning up [3] :) The only way to get Editions merged, I guess, is to update the 'best' Edition and report a problem (using the link at the bottom of the page) for the others, saying why they should be merged with the Edition you updated. I don't know if the support will be happy though... Ben [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/msg00624.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/msg00632.html [3] http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A/J._K._Rowling On 10 May 2012 18:28, <r...@ark.in-berlin.de> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
