On 9/2/13 3:30 AM, Patrick Conley wrote:
> "Zero works" means that there is an edition linked with this author but
> not a work.
>
> A long time ago work pages were created for most of the editions, but
> not for all editions.
>
> BTW: Imho it would be helpful if OL would distinguish between a person
> (an individual author) and a name (VIAF used the term "undifferentiated").
>
> The two kind of pages could be marked by using colors:
>
> - a white author page (for example) would imply: name, disambiguation,
> unverified information
> - a light blue page: person (with year of birth, occupation, external
> links etc.), verified information
I empathize with this, Patrick, but there are many individual authors
without year of birth -- the cataloging rule in the Anglo-American
community has been that the first author with that name ("John Smith")
does not need additional information, and subsequent authors with the
same name are distinguished using year of the birth or other
information. I cannot defend the logic of this, but there it is.
The only way to know which is undifferentiated would be to have the
names under authority control. However, the author strings in OL have
been modified from the original input (e.g. FROM: Tolkien, J. R. R.
(John Ronald Reuel) TO: J. R. R. Tolkien). I wish that the original
library authoritative name had been stored somewhere in the record, but
it was not. Having that would allow us to link to VIAF, and therefore we
could know which names were "settled" in terms of identity. It still
would be possible to retrieve names from the original MARC records, but
that seems to me to be a bit more work. If we had the links to VIAF then
1) we could use the form with the link to VIAF as the one to merge with
2) we could concentrate efforts on the names with no such link.
kc
>
> patrick
>
> Am 02.09.2013 01:55, schrieb Karen Coyle:
>> Thanks, Tom. I'm idly working through starting near the bottom.
>>
>> I notice that some of the authors have zero works -- I'm not sure how
>> this happens but I think I've seen this before . I assume it was a merge
>> or clean-up that didn't fully clean up after itself. I'm merging these
>> anyway.
>>
>> kc
>
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