[bksvol-discuss] Re: Filter for Duplicates?
- From: "Christina" <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:14:16 -0400
That's a great idea, Ilene!
Hmm. Maybe author and part of the title.
I'd say ISBN but the same book can have a couple of ISBN's.
I say part of the title because an exact match still wouldn't rule out
duplicates. I'm thinking specifically of books in a series. Submitters
don't always put the series info after a books title in the title field. If
someone did and I didn't, and the duplicate finder thingy looked only for
exact matches, it wouldn't tell me my submission was a duplicate when, in
fact, it was.
Christina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilene Sirocca" <ilenesia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 3:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Filter for Duplicates?
Hi,
Since I don't read every post, I may have missed this if someone else
mentioned it, but here goes.
Have the Bookshare engineers considered having a filter built into the site
so that if we submit our books and they have elements in common with books
already in the collection (or even in process, if that's possible) an
information box could come up informing us of this? Whether we'd want it to
appear only if two or more elements were the same, such as title and author
or title and ISBN, or whether we'd like the info to come up even if just the
author were the same, i don't know. We could look at the list of similar
titles and if we realized we were duplicating we could stop the process.
Obviously we would all prefer to catch the fact that we had a duplicate book
before we even started scanning, but if we missed that fact somehow this
would be a checkpoint. If we wished to continue for any reason we could do
so and if necessary explain why in our comments.
If this has all been mulled over already, I really do apologize.
Ilene
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