Open Library

amazon records with non book content

Bug #609801 reported by Patrick
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
New
Medium
Edward Betts
Open Library general-bucket

Bug Description

The amazon records should be checked on music cds, software etc. before being imported. Right now OL contains authors like "A Cdimge Ps313", and books like "Peachtree Accounting Version 8.0 CD-ROM (Stand Alone)".

133 works by an author with the name "Cd-Rom"
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3502690A/Cd-Rom

71 music cds
http://openlibrary.org/search?publisher_facet=IMAGE%20ENTERTAINMENT

158 music cds
http://openlibrary.org/search?publisher_facet=UNIVERSAL%20CLASSICS

308 music cds
http://openlibrary.org/search?publisher_facet=ALBANY%20MUSIC%20DISTRIBUTION

Revision history for this message
George (george-archive) wrote :

Something to consider when you get around to processing updates from Amazon.

Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
milestone: none → general-bucket
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Alan Millar (am12) wrote :

More music CDs

2,182 hits:
http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=cdpham

looks like it closely matches:

2,179 hits
http://openlibrary.org/search?publisher_facet=PHANTOM%20SOUND%20%26%20VISION

But not all of them are CDs; there are some books in there also.

"Various artists" gives 5,236 hits.
http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=various+artists

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