XML:AuthorMerge

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

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>