[ol-discuss] manual editions joining (again sorry)

2012-05-09 Thread ralf
May I ask if there is some progress in the possibility to join editions manually into one work? Even now, new works are added with the same author/title/year, where just a different form of the publisher's name causes it to be occupying a different slot. Regards, ralf PS: My condolences for

Re: [ol-discuss] manual editions joining (again sorry)

2012-05-09 Thread Karen Coyle
Ralf, can you send an example? Publisher name should affect combining editions but not linking editions to works, so I should look at this. kc On 5/9/12 9:00 AM, r...@ark.in-berlin.de wrote: May I ask if there is some progress in the possibility to join editions manually into one work? Even

Re: [ol-discuss] Want to merge authors? Try Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)

2012-05-09 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On 09-May-2012, at 6:35 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: Hi, Although I found 341 duplicates of President Clinton a lot yesterday, there is still the author that goes by the name Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.). There are a whopping 10,047 authors with that name!

Re: [ol-discuss] Want to merge authors? Try Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)

2012-05-09 Thread Karen Coyle
OK, now I get that too. No idea what I did different before but... nevermind. This has got to be a bug. The same item has been entered who knows how many times, and at least some of the IDs are consecutive. http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4602522A http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4602523A