I don't know if there is an automated work-merging function. I hope someone else can say if there is. I'm pretty sure that there is an automated function that merges editions into works after they have been edited.
kc Quoting Patrick Conley <[email protected]>: > Changing the work title to a uniform title is not enough. You will still > have two work pages: > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9179990W/Münchhausen > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL8772616W/Münchhausen > > What Ralf would need is a merge function for work pages and a delete > button for false records. > > Both is not yet implemented (but hopefully will some day). > > BTW, there are still a lot of work and author pages linked to 0 books: > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15330484W/Gottfied_August_Bürger's_Gedichte > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4064686A/Werner_Bürger > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4064628A/Werner._Bürger > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4118092A/Christoph_Bürger > > Cheers, Patrick > > > Am 13.09.2011 20:21, schrieb Karen Coyle: >> Libraries run into this problem frequently, and have developed >> something they call a "uniform title". That is, they select one of the >> titles, or create one if needed be, to represent all of the variations >> of the work. That uniform title brings them together even though the >> actual titles don't. It's an artificially created link between the >> items. >> >> For reasons that I can neither explain nor defend, the Library of >> Congress has chosen to give these works the uniform title >> "Munchhausen." You may find a better solution through German >> libraries. If you look at: >> >> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9179990W/M%C3%BCnchhausen >> >> You can see three editions, each of which has a different title. So >> you need to get the uniform (work) title into any editions that have >> not yet merged. I looked at the edit page and I admit that it is a bit >> confusing. The top box that says "title" should get the work title, >> "Munchhausen". (Look at the edit page for editions on the page I >> linked to, above.) The specific edition of the title is called for >> further down on the page. If you have (logically, IMO) placed the >> specific edition title in the upper "title" field the items will not >> merge with that work. >> >> It seems that the edit page may need some clarification... >> >> kc >> >> >> >> >> Quoting Ralf Stephan<[email protected]>: >> >>> Now that Lee has clarified what I meant (am I that >>> cryptic geek?) let me point out that old works frequently >>> have editions the titles of which can differ widely, and >>> indeed I'm looking for a way to manually help that algorithm. >>> >>> However, let the example be Bürger's Münchhausen. Let's >>> not dive into if this is really the original, simply assume it is: >>> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24988779M >>> >>> This was not in OL so I created it as edition of the abstract >>> "Münchhausen" work. Now, there are more editions I like to >>> add to the work: >>> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22319113M >>> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22050216M >>> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL12668689M >>> >>> and of course I want to delete the superfluous works and >>> editions afterwards. So how would I do it? >>> >>> Regards, >>> ralf > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
