On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Michael Beccaria
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I posted this awhile back to the ol-discuss listserve but didn't get a
> response. ol-tech seems more appropriate.


This list is more appropriate and it's where I answered your original
question.  Unfortunately, bcc'ing ol-discuss (to focus the discussion here)
seems to have the effect of causing the message to not get forwarded


> Anyone know the basics of getting started on this? I'm proficient in
> coding but don't want to spend hours digging through piles of code and
> framework documentation to find out this might not be possible or there was
> an easier way.
>
> Karen Coyle in the code4lib listserv pointed me in the direction of the
> source code for the merge algorithms OL uses to de-dupe records (
> https://github.com/openlibrary/openlibrary/tree/master/openlibrary/catalog/merge).
> I'm interested in taking 2 sets of marc records and spitting out either a
> report on similarity or a merged record set. I looked at the code and the
> OL instructions but it isn't clear to me exactly how the merge code fits in
> and whether it is possible to run it independently of the overall system.
>
> Anyone have any insight into this to point me in the right direction?
>

Here's my original reply from the archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01118.html
Let us know if you have any follow-up questions.

Tom

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