Hi Michael:

Thanks for your email.  No we haven't implemented any merging system.
Our software currently just tries to do clustering of
similar/identical records.  We may consider creating a merge algorithm
that is generic, which might then be customized to make some of your
pointed canonicalizations eas(ier) to do.  As for integrating it with
marc4j, currently we don't have specific plans for this (although we'd
appreciate any interested folks who'd like to help).

> So back to the de-dup thing (things got busy here). Has anyone
> implemented a merging algorithm like this one:
> http://www.kcoyle.net/temp/merge.html
>
> It's the referred to via openlibrary here:
> http://openlibrary.org/about/lib
>
> Putting something like this in marc4j would be sweet.
> Mike Beccaria
> Systems Librarian
> Head of Digital Initiatives
> Paul Smith's College
> 518.327.6376
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Cheers,

Min

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