Well, it's possible that you shouldn't listen to me :-) because I just looked at the code and it does indeed include the 110 as an author -- whereas my memory was that we didn't include the corporations as authors because most non-librarians wouldn't think of them as authors.
So much for my memory. However, I wish we HAD moved the corporations to a field other than author. kc On 5/19/12 8:01 AM, Ben Companjen wrote: > On 19 May 2012 16:11, Karen Coyle<[email protected]> wrote: >> I took a look at some of these. Many are corporate authors, and I saw >> some where the author names are identical. It isn't clear to me why >> these didn't get auto-merged. Maybe it's worth having one of the >> programmers take a look at this before we hand merge them all. > > Since most duplicates were last edited by ImportBot in 2008, I get the > impression that maybe ImportBot wasn't capable of checking whether the > author was already in the database. Or, but this is speculation, it's > a long-running April Fool's joke (seeing that many were last edited > April 1st, 2008). ;) > >> >> It's also entirely unclear to me why we ended up with these in authors >> when they are coded as a corporate authors: >> >> 110 00 $aPUNJAB. GOVERNMENT >> 110 1 $aWest Sussex (England).$bCounty Planning Department. >> >> I thought that corporate authors were moved to "collaborator" rather >> than the author field. So I'm thinking that something went wrong with >> the loading. The two above are from Toronto library and Talis, so it's >> not just one source. > > To me, it's getting more and more obvious that that *may* never have > happened. At least it seems it didn't happen during imports in 2008. > And without written cataloguing rules and so many examples of > corporate identities in the author fields and records, you have been > the only source for me saying that they should go in the contributors. > No offense to you, you're a great source :) > > On a perhaps related note: > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2734614A/Various_Authors :) > > Ben >> >> kc >> > -- 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]
