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Alpha version of a catalogue explorer for Wellcome Library (deprecated).
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Import and Match the non-LOC authors #9

Closed george08 closed 8 years ago

george08 commented 8 years ago

In Week 4, we only showed people with LOC IDs. The remaining task is to figure out people in the DB that are entered as "free text" or otherwise not connected to LOC IDs. Currently showing about 40% of author data, because we're showing only LOC authors.

george08 commented 8 years ago

E.g of a non-LOC author: http://localhost:5000/people/P128753

frankieroberto commented 8 years ago

Okay, so I looked into this some more – we DID display non LOC authors. Where a record had an author specified with no LOC id, we tried to match it to an existing author (from the database) with the same case-insensitive name (and if there were more than one match we picked the person with the most things)  – if there were no matches then we created a new Person record with no LOC id.

So I think we are displaying ALL the authors, e.g. see this one which has 53: http://wellcomelibrary-alpha.herokuapp.com/b13213696 (most of which don't have LOC ids).