[Koha] Deduplicate authorities

[Jared Camins-Esakov]

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 at 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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Jared Camins-Esakov
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