Hi Jim, It is available. To be clear I helped create the de-duplication algorithm but the actual coding was done by Galen Charlton of Equinox. You can find it here:
http://git.esilibrary.com/?p=migration-tools.git;h=300a04108fc6a3d14424c6d365329be334114f7d The full scope of the script goes a bit beyond the original question as it also does de-duplication before the merging. The merging work is done by the merge_record_assets function that Jason referenced. Whatever method you use I heartily recommend doing so on a testing system and having catalogers look over the results first. You may have already done all the due diligence but I say it for anyone reading along as well. I've never had problems with this method and heard back from others with positive success with it as well but I also heard from at least one whose data was apparently different enough that it was not a clean merge. Caveat usor, let the user beware. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:36 PM, swills beyond-print.com < [email protected]> wrote: > Rogan Hamby shared his work with me. It's a set of SQL procedures that > product a 'best bib' and then identifies the less interesting duplicate and > it seems to work well. I modified it so that it produces the candidates > but doesn't actually do the merge since we like to have that personal touch > up in Maine. I'm not sure if it is in Evergreen Repos or not? > > Rogan, can you help and thanks again. > > Steve Wills > > On April 25, 2016 at 2:24 PM Jim Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I raised the question at the conference regarding the ability to merge > records outside the program interface and was told there was a > procedure/function that would allow this to be done. Does anyone know > where I can find this function? My searching has availed me naught. I > found something under the Vandelay tables but not sure it is what I am > needing as the above mentioned function is supposed to take two tcn numbers. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jim > > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Rogan R. Hamby, Data and Project Analyst Equinox - Open Your Library [email protected] 1-877-OPEN-ILS | www.esilibrary.com
