On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Edward Betts <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Ok, good -- the redirect is a good safety net, if nothing else.
> 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? > Well, it would be a lot easier to update anything with the old work id to use the new one than to match every edition identifier and change it. In the end, though, it's not a huge deal. > 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. > Good to know! Thanks for all of the pointers, -Ross. _______________________________________________ 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]
