Tim Spalding wrote:
>
> Or a Turk who loves what he does. LibraryThing members are doing
> *6,000* FRBR acts per day now. That's a minimum of 12,000 works
> combined. Similar effort goes into author combinations, identification
> of "distinct" homonymous authors, etc. etc.
>
Tim, I find this figure fascinating. When OCLC did its FRBRization, it
concluded that about 5% of books in its database had more than one
manifestation to bring together. That figure would undoubtedly be
different with LT because LT probably doesn't have the long tail of
titles that OCLC will have, but do you know how many of your books are
'singlets' and how many are merged with others?
kc
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