Coyle on merging at Open Library
Over at the Open Library project, Karen Coyle posted a link to a record-merging algorithm. On the mailing list where she announced this, she said, “This algorithm was designed to bring together what you would call ‘manifestations’ in FRBR-speak, and what OpenLibrary calls an edition. It can basically be summed up as ‘things you would assign the same ISBN to.’”
It may be temporary on her site (the URL implies so), but if this builds into something permanent at the Open Library then it will be very useful. Certainly the algorithm is of immediate interest to anyone grouping MARC or ONIX records.