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.
- Range - Required tag. Specifies the range of changes:
- TITLES - Only merges authors an the canonical_author table.
- PUBS - Only merges authors in the pub_authors and aspub_author tables.
- ALL - Applies changes to all author mapping tables.
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>