internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary
Add an option to add synonyms to publishers, authors and places
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Affects: Data
Lead: @cdrini
Priority: 3
Type: Feature Request
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Description
A lot of publishers have different names throughout years, authors use different names and places have different names in different languages.
Good example of this is [Státní nakladatelství politické literatury](https://openlibrary.org/publishers/St%C3%A1tn%C3%AD_nakladatelstv%C3%AD_politick%C3%A9_literatury), that was later renamed to Svoboda, Nakladatelsví politické literatury (NPL), Libertas...
### Proposal & Constraints
We can solve this by having an option to add synonyms, names in different languages and abbreviations to publishers, authors and places.
### Stakeholders
@seabelis
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