Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

We have a small network of librarians on a slack channel who have merged more than 10,000 duplicate works.

Librarians (which is a permission role) also have the ability to merge Authors, so data improves over time.

Furthermore, members of our community coordinate with Wikidata, VIAF, etc -- we match up identifiers and sync data (and in this way, bots are able to make meaningful changes in bulk on a rolling basis).

See: http://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-bots (most of which are built using the OL client: http://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client)

e.g. https://github.com/cdrini/openlibrary-wikidata-bot




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: