[bksvol-discuss] Re: Filter for Duplicates?
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I have found a few of those duplicates myself. I just let them be. Is there
any strong reason for Bookshare not to have duplicates?
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Filter for Duplicates?
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Engineering tells us they do not even have a way of checking for
duplicate books in the system right now let alone ones which are coming in.
So, there certainly are duplicate copies of the same book in the
system now. I have found a few myself, distinguished by slightly
different spellings of a author's name or of the title of a book. And
no, I am not talking about duplicates where one is a PQ copy and the
other is a copy submitted by a volunteer. I mean two books each
submitted by a volunteer.
E.
At 03:07 PM 9/5/2009, you wrote:
>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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