I did make an automated script to deduplicate biblio records. Thanks,
Joy, for the thoughts about choosing the "biggest" record. While it is
dangerous to say it is done before the librarians have told me I did a
great job, I will go ahead and put the script here just in case someone
else finds
I on occasion have needed to "dedupe" bib records. We have a script that looks
for dupes using isbn as the key. We then make the determination on "best"
record to keep by see NH which bib record is longer. (Longer implies more tags
ergo better cataloging). We then move all items to the best
Tim,
Regarding you message about what you should do with duplicate bibliographic
records in Koha, as a cataloger myself, I can tell you that not all
bibliographic records are created equal. Many bibliographic records are
missing subject headings (600's, 650's, etc.) and contributor headings
Every once in a while I help out with a Koha installation.
At the moment, they have asked me to fix a bunch of duplicate biblio
records. I have found two main ways to do this.
A manual way where you are in control every step of the way:
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