Thanks for the quick reply, George. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:02 PM, George Oates <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure if this is exactly what you're after, but, you can look back into > what > happened when authors are merged to see what was affected. > > E.g. > http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges/2011/03/21/merge-authors/43179847
I'll dig into that more, but it definitely looks like it could potentially provide what I want. > But, there is no aggregate list of any/all IDs that were redirected. Perhaps > that would be useful to note near/under the alternate names in small grey > type. > > Can I ask why you're looking for that? Why it would be useful to you? I'm hoping that I don't really "need" the information as long as the redirects work properly, but it just makes me a little nervous to depend on that fact. Additionally, for the semantic web type folks, only the current single canonical ID is included in the RDF without any owl:sameAs links to previous identifiers, preventing people who use offline computations from establishing the equivalences. The thing which triggered my question was the fact that Freebase, despite having 10 OpenLibrary IDs for Tolstoy, doesn't have the current canonical one, which was a surprise to me. If people are trying to bridge from Freebase to OpenLibrary or OpenLibrary to DBpedia via Freebase, there's no way to do it currently without hitting the URL and taking note of the redirect (i.e. you can't do it using static analysis from the dumps). I don't have a customer depending on getting this fixed, but it would seem like a good thing to improve from a holistic cleanliness point of view. Thanks again for the quick reply, Tom > > g > > On 9/14/11 1:42 PM, Tom Morris wrote: >> The current ID for Tolstoy is OL26783A [1], but there are at least ten >> other IDs which redirect to that current canonical one including >> OL2997592A, OL2883781A, OL2957939A, OL2621549A, OL3311105A, >> OL3039395A, OL2744893A, OL3142780A, OL4734259A, OL3113222A >> >> Is there a way to get a list of all these redirects? In the history >> page, I can see where alternate names were added as a result of >> merges, but not what happened to the keys. >> >> Tom >> >> [1] http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL26783A/Leo_Tolstoy >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] > _______________________________________________ > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
