If you look at any of my recent author merges ( http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges/merge-authors.json), you should be able to find plenty of other examples too.
For example, http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=edward+o+wilson shows three search hits (each with different numbers of works) which, if you click through, you can see have all been merged with http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL141176A/Edward_Osborne_Wilson When I put together the spreadsheet of author merge URLs, I noticed that there were a number of author entries from the LC imports a year ago which didn't show up in the search index at all. I was generating the merges from the database dump, but if you did an online search by name, the authors wouldn't show up. Another problematic scenario is creating new author records when editing a work. Because the authors don't get indexed, their impossible to find/reuse again. Tom On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, jessamyn c. west <[email protected]> wrote: > Will do, thank you -- I've been forwarding you the items as I see them > from the Open Library email. Here's a recap. > > 1. Here is one example that has a grumpy emailer at the other end. > Haven't emailed you about it yet since there is also a lot of user > error involved. > > http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=sherman+keene > > These two authors have been merged. Expected result would be one > result, not two (they both go to the same page) with no "merge these > authors" option appearing on that page. User has added additional > works (in September) including these two which are not appearing on > their author page. > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806644W/In_Plain_Sight > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806643W/Felony_Divorce > > 2. Another higher profile example is the Dean Koontz merge that was > done by an overzealous user and then undone (by me and then you helped > me to redo it when I wasn't sure it had completed) [emailed October 1] > > Here is the merge: > http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges/2013/09/24/merge-authors/47696714 > > Here is the Dean Koontz page with zero titles > > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7119293A/Dean_Koontz > > Here is a search showing all the Dean Koontz books (and some Ed Korman > books) still attached to the author Ed Gorman > > http://openlibrary.org/search?q=ed+gorman > > 3. This author page [emailed September 3] > > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL5132590A/Janice_Rebibo > > Is not showing a title that belongs to that author and was correctly > added in September > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806345W/My_Beautiful_Ballooning_Heart > > 4. This author [emailed August 30th] > > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6775565A/Victoria_E._K%C3%BChnhardt > > shows with no titles on her author page despite having two titles > correctly associated with her > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806308W/Wolkenschloss > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL25430075M/The_Enchanted_House_in_the_Woods. > > 5. This item [emailed August 14th] > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16805869W/De_rede_in_het_nauw > > is not findable via basic searching for words in the title > > example 1: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=nauw > example 2: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=rede+nauw > > 6. This book not findable on author page or via search for title words > [emailed August 9th] > > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16805846W/Dictionnaire_des_onomastismes_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois > > clicking through author page: > > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7170527A/Gabriel_Martin > > search: > > http://openlibrary.org/search?q=onomastismes > > ________ > Jessamyn > > librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt > 05060 > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On 05-Oct-2013, at 8:25 PM, jessamyn c. west wrote: > > > >> I'm getting a lot of reports of people adding books they can not find > >> on their author pages or via Search. If people are adding records (as > >> we encourage them to do) but then can not find them, this is a > >> problem. > >> > >> Would it be possible to do something so that the search index is > >> updated and the author pages are showing recent additions/editions on > >> them so that people making changes can see the work that they have > >> been doing? > > > > Search updater seems to be running fine. If you can point me to couple > of URLs that are not showing up correctly, I can try to figure out what is > wrong. > > > > Anand > > _______________________________________________ > > Ol-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] >
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