[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Bibliographic records: Automatic Merge

[Bill Erickson]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:35:35PM -0500, Duimovich, George wrote:
> 
> 
> Situation:  We imported at large batch of bibliographic records, tagged with a
> unique "tcn_source" or record source. There will be sub-standard
> duplicate bib records already in the system for most of these newly imported
> bibs, but we don't have any 901c values to match in the new records so can't
> use the "Merge On Exact Match (901c)" feature in MARC Import /
> Export.
> Question:
> Once imported, we can readily identify duplicates.  However, is there any SQL
> (or command line) method to invoke bibliographic record merge in an automated
> way where we a target bib id to be merged with a known lead record bib id?

Hi George,

Check out asset.merge_record_assets.  That might be what you need.

-b

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