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This might work too, using OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine, a great tool for cleaning up data). <http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/reconciling-author-names-using-open.html> <http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2012/02/using-google-refine-and-taxonomic.html>

Nathan


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Nathan Tallman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
If you (or someone nearby) are handy with scripting, you could probably write one to check the VIAF through it's API. <http://www.oclc.org/developer/documentation/virtual-international-authority-file-viaf/using-api> You might want to post this to Code4Lib too.

Nathan



On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Does anyone know of a good tool that can process a bunch of names (in a csv file perhaps) and match them against LC, telling you "This is a match" "This is a partial match" etc.? � Ideally it would be interactive, where it displays a list of possible matches, you click the one that's correct, and then it updates your file to correct the name.

We're going to be bringing in something like 6000 names for a project and the thought of manually checking them all against LC makes me cry.

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