Ben, there was a discussion that flew by me on the OL skype chat that someone had noticed that things weren't getting updated, and I believe that someone (Anand?) has restarted that process.
kc On 2/1/13 2:46 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: > Good questions, Tom. It looks like the IA page only uses the original > MARC record. I imagine that the same record was imported to OL if it > hadn't been before and that OL interprets MARC on input (discarding full > names too, I guess). > > From what I read on the OL mailinglists, I can only answer the last one > about the works not showing up with more certainty: the Solr indexes > need to be updated. They provide the lists of works for authors, > subjects and perhaps also the editions for works. > There has been a chronical delay since the summer, I believe. > I/VacuumBot had not yet discovered bulk edits and that appeared to have > slowed the indexing process down, and it never seemed to have recovered. > I added a work in December that hasn't showed up yet. > > I have been meaning to ask for a status update on the Solr indexes, but > now seems a good time: any updates on Solr? :) > > Ben > > On 1 February 2013 18:21, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com > <mailto:tfmor...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Books which are on Internet Archive often have a link to their Open > Library entry. What is the relationship between the two sets of > data? Which is the master? How often are they synchronized? > > When I look at this pair of matching records from IA & OL: > > http://archive.org/details/acompletedictio00kerngoog > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL20509867M/A_Complete_Pronouncing_Dictionary_of_the_English_and_Slovene_Languages_for_General_Use > > The IA record had the authors full name which was missing from Open > Library. > The OL record had a different title variant than the IA record (both > wrong in different ways). > > Now that I've cleaned up the OL record, will that might back to > Internet Archive? > > As part of the cleanup, I merged three author records, but now when > I navigate from this work up to the author record, the work isn't > listed. Is there a time delay before all works show up? (I tried > doing a hard refresh on the page). > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org <mailto: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 > <mailto: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 > -- 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
