Re: [ol-discuss] New power tool for author merges

2011-02-13 Thread Karen Coyle
Thanks, Tom. I took a quick look at a few pages of your list, and have 2 immediate observations: 1 - there are a LOT of corporate authors, and most of those will not have come in on library records (the ones on library records we moved to the contributor field). This makes me wonder if we

Re: [ol-discuss] New power tool for author merges

2011-02-13 Thread Tom Morris
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: 2 - of the ones I looked at, a number have already been merged. (Yeah OL users!). You wouldn't by any chance want to update this list? (she asks sheepishly) Yes, in addition the ones the OL users had already done (mostly

Re: [ol-discuss] New power tool for author merges

2011-02-12 Thread Patrick Conley
This list is helpfull, but the work has still to be done by hand: For example http://www.freebase.com/view//m/05whw9w Freebase: Ann Williams (b. 1938), aka Ann Williams Gascon Mergeing: Ann Williams-Gascon (no year of birth, no bio) with Williams, Ann. (no year of birth, no bio) You first