Karen Coyle wrote:
>
> In the UC union catalog, we had about 35 million 'books', and 10
> million works. However, 66% of the works were singletons. So we had
> about 6.5 million singletons, and the other 29 million books turned
> into the 3.5 million merged titles.
oops, I should have said 35 million 'books', and 10 million *titles*. We
merged at the manifestation level.
>
> So I think we ended up with a classic zipf-ian curve, with a very high
> end that dropped sharply, and a long tail.
>
> kc
>
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