On 13/12/10 08:17, Ross Singer wrote: > When two works are merged (such as from WorkBot: > http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges.json?limit=100&bots=true&author=/people/WorkBot), > what exactly happens? Does it create a new work from the 2 (or more?) > old works? Does it choose one? > > What happens to the merged Work ids? >
It doesn't create a new work, it uses ID of the existing work with the most editions. If there is a draw it picks the lowest work ID. The other works get turned into redirects to the chosen work. The changes are also visible here: http://openlibrary.org/people/WorkBot > Is there a way to track the changes to the Work identifiers? The API > only seems to show the edition ids. We don't have a good feed for watching the changes to work identifiers. What would you use the feed for? Currently it is only WorkBot that is merging works, in the future we'll let humans do it as well, as we build that feature we can include a feed of merged works. -- Edward. _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
