Here's another one which Richard Light asked about earlier when discussing author merges:
http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=a.+hamon The first and last search results have already been merged together yet show up separately in search. Tom On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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