On 5/21/12 8:29 AM, Tom Morris wrote:

>
> These problems may have been introduced upstream and, if so, won't be
> fixable because there's been too much information lost, but if they
> were introduced on import to OpenLibrary, they could be fixed by
> re-examining/converting the source record.

It's unfortunately not unusual to receive bib data where the character 
set is garbled, so this is a good avenue of exploration.

>
> Is there any way of finding the source for the alternate names (or
> what other author records Ben merged) to figure out where the problem
> was introduced?

If you find the OL edition record, click on "history" in the upper 
right, and the bottom row of history usually has a link to the original 
MARC record.

kc

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