Hi Anand, all, You no longer need to work on that API to merge the 10000+ "Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)" authors, because I just finished the job.
Now eventually the author page [1] will list 10000+ copies of the exact same work/edition. So some automation to merge works and editions (in general) would be welcome. (Yes, I know this has been on wishlists for a long time.) Ben [1] http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4602513A/Shirley_Institute_Wira_Joint_Conference_%281977_Manchester_Eng.%29 On 10 May 2012 04:28, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09-May-2012, at 6:35 PM, 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? > > I can work out an API. Will that help? > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > 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]
