internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

Automatic synchronization of works in Internet Archive after each merge

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Description

It is somewhat time-consuming and laborious to manually synchronize edition by edition after each merging of works.

### Describe the problem that you'd like solved
When merging works, the editions with a copy in the Internet Archive are out of sync, i.e. the "openlibrary_work" field is not updated if any of the works merged into other works have editions available in Internet Archive (something relatively frequent). The person responsible for merging must manually synchronize each edition, which consumes time and effort.

### Proposal & Constraints
If this synchronization could be done automatically by software (without user intervention), merges it would be more efficient.

### Stakeholders
Open Librarians

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