[OLAC-credits] Repeating credits?

[Kelley McGrath]

Hi Lizzie,

You probably are seeing the same credits. There are a couple reasons this might be happening. One is that we often have more than one record in the database for the same movie. A library might have the same movie in more than one format (film, VHS, DVD, streaming, etc.). I got the records from several libraries and more than one of them might hold the same movie. We didn't do any de-duping of the database because different records for the same video can look surprising different and we wanted to capture the variations.

The second reason is that the system is set up to present each credit for annotation up to two times. Getting two different people to annotate the same credit helps with the error checking on the backend. It shouldn't present the exact same credit from the exact same record twice during a single session, though.

This is probably more noticeable to you since Portuguese is one of the smaller datasets and I think you're the only person annotating Portuguese credits.

Kelley
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Subject: [OLAC-credits] Repeating credits?

Hi Kelley,

Is it possible that the same credits might be cycling through the annotator more than once? At first, since I was just working on the Portuguese credits, I thought there must be a small Brazilian film industry and the same people keep popping up. But today I'm sure I saw 1 or 2 exact credits that I've already annotated.

Thanks!

-Lizzie
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