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

[Duimovich, George]

Thanks Bill.

See that now in functions list. Very helpful.

Cheers,
George

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Sent: December 13, 2011 15:47
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Bibliographic records: Automatic Merge

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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