I'm finding author data at the edition level. I assume it is obsolete leftovers from earlier states of the data, but I think it may also be causing problems too.
Shakespeare has a LOT of these (of course, Shakespeare has a lot of anything :-) and I think it may be the reason why most of my attempts to edit many Shakespeare items were blowing up. For example: OL9574910M is a typical edition of Julius Caesar. Go to its page http://openlibrary.org/books/OL9574910M/Julius_Caesar and you see the work's author is OL9388A, the current master record for Shakespeare. But look at the edition's json record http://openlibrary.org/books/OL9574910M.json and you see it says the author is OL2622133A, a variant shakespeare entry that got merged. However, the merge didnt' seem to clean up these edition-level author entries. I had to revert the record for OL2622133A to even be able to edit these edition records. Clearly that's not what we want. Subsequent edits don't seem to eliminate the data, either. Even changing the author doesn't clean it up. For example: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL8884631M.json http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7592530M.json both have the old author field, an hour after changing the work's author on them. How do we clean these up? (Also, workbot died again. Poor workbot is overworked I think :-) - Alan _______________________________________________ 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]
