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And for good reason.. many of those requests involve a much higher level of maintenance (moderating content like reviews, building a social network, etc)

I like that OpenLibrary is trying to be a source of open book data. But I am a bit concerned about the quality of the data (just a feeling as I am still digging into it but there are open questions on how to handle things like multiple authors, etc)

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We have a small network of librarians on a slack channel who have merged more than 10,000 duplicate works.

Librarians (which is a permission role) also have the ability to merge Authors, so data improves over time.

Furthermore, members of our community coordinate with Wikidata, VIAF, etc -- we match up identifiers and sync data (and in this way, bots are able to make meaningful changes in bulk on a rolling basis).

See: http://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-bots (most of which are built using the OL client: http://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client)

e.g. https://github.com/cdrini/openlibrary-wikidata-bot

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