Paul, There is not any authority deduplicator at present included in Koha. I proposed bug 7419 because it would be very useful to have one, but that project has not been funded yet. It is possible that someone else has already written one, in which case I would encourage that person to contribute said script to the community, 'cause lots of us would love to have it. Regards, Jared On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Paul <paul.a@aandc.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if this query is related to bug 7419, or just something that we are doing wrong (or not doing right.) (Koha v. 3.6.1.)
Our cataloguers have started looking at "duplicate authorities" (mainly caused by import of Z39.50 biblios) and editing the biblios by using the drop-down "Tag Editor" at 100$a and "choosing" the one they wish to retain, then deleting the "old|unused" authority.
As an example, they started with: Gibbs-Smith, C. H., Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles H., Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles H., 1909- Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles H., 1909-1981 Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909- Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981 Details 4 biblio(s)
and ended with: Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981 Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981 Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981 Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981 Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981 Details 1 biblio(s) Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-1981 Details 4 biblio(s)
The incremental zebra (-z) crontab does nothing to deduplicate, nor does a complete zebra authority reindex (-a -r -v), and I have tried additionally (-b -r -v -x) -- no joy.
Is there a way to deduplicate?
Thanks and regards - Paul
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