internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary
Strong identifiers should be imported for authors when available
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Lead: @cdrini
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Theme: Identifiers
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Description
MARC records, Wikisource metadata, and perhaps other sources of metadata often include various strong identifiers for authors (LCCN, VIAF, Wikidata, ISNI, etc) which should a) be imported and b) used for matching author records to disambiguate similar author records.
Per @cdrini:
> Unfortunately, I believe this isn't supported by our import endpoint at this time :( So even if we specify them, they would not only not be used to match the author, they would not even be saved onto the author record.
_Originally posted by @cdrini in https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/9674#issuecomment-2387015816_
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