XML:AuthorMerge
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Introduction
The AuthorMerge submission specifies how two author records should be merged.
Required Tags
The submission contains three required tags:
- KeepId - Required tag. Specifies which author record will be retained.
- DropId - Required tag. Specifies which author record will be dropped.
Optional Tags
The AuthorMerge submission also contains a number of optional tags. When a merging conflict occurs, these tags are used to specify which version of the data should be used:
- Canonical - Use when a conflict exists between the canonical names.
- Legalname - Use when a conflict exists between the legal names.
- Birthplace - Use when a conflict exists between the birthplaces.
- Birthdate - Use when a conflict exists between the birthdates
- Deathdate - Use when a conflict exists between the deathdates.
- Wikipedia - Use when a conflict exists between Wikipedia URLs.
- Imdb - Use when a conflict exists between IMDB URLs.
Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<IsfdbSubmission>
<AuthorMerge>
<Submitter>Rkihara</Submitter>
<Subject>Elliott Dold/Elliott Dold</Subject>
<KeepId>71501</KeepId>
<DropId>84301</DropId>
<Range>ALL</Range>
<Legalname>84301</Legalname>
</AuthorMerge>
</IsfdbSubmission>