XML:AuthorMerge

Introduction

The AuthorMerge submission specifies how two author records should be merged.

Required Tags

The submission contains three required tags:

• KeepId - Required tag. Specifies which author record will be retained.
• DropId - Required tag. Specifies which author record will be dropped.

Optional Tags

The AuthorMerge submission also contains a number of optional tags. When a merging conflict occurs, these tags are used to specify which version of the data should be used:

• Canonical - Use when a conflict exists between the canonical names.
• Legalname - Use when a conflict exists between the legal names.
• Birthplace - Use when a conflict exists between the birthplaces.
• Birthdate - Use when a conflict exists between the birthdates
• Deathdate - Use when a conflict exists between the deathdates.
• Wikipedia - Use when a conflict exists between Wikipedia URLs.
• Imdb - Use when a conflict exists between IMDB URLs.

Example

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
 <IsfdbSubmission>
   <AuthorMerge>
      <Submitter>Rkihara</Submitter>
      <Subject>Elliott Dold/Elliott Dold</Subject>
      <KeepId>71501</KeepId>
      <DropId>84301</DropId>
      <Range>ALL</Range>
      <Legalname>84301</Legalname>
   </AuthorMerge>
 </IsfdbSubmission>