- From: Richard Light <richard@light.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:08:34 +0000
- To: "Diane I. Hillmann" <metadata.maven@gmail.com>
- Cc: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>, public-lld <public-lld@w3.org>
In message <4D777F37.1080007@gmail.com>, Diane I. Hillmann <metadata.maven@gmail.com> writes > I think it's important to note here that providing ways for catalogers >to do this kind of disambiguation is only one way (and perhaps not the >most efficient). Many of these are easier and more effective as >post-processing activities. Absolutely: in fact my Culture Grid investigations concern how we can "add value" to an existing metadata resource, itself derived from primary LAM source data. Come to that, once Open Library and/or LoC/BL have published all these descriptions as Linked Data, will we need cataloguers anyway? After ISO 2709, here comes the shared catalogue entry at the far end of a dereferenceable URL ... [Just joking, of course] Richard >On 3/9/11 8:04 AM, Richard Light wrote: >> >> >> Following the recent Culture Grid Hack Day [1] I've written a simple >>CGI for place names [2] which will attempt to disambiguate strings >>such as: >> >> Paris, France >> >> so that: >> >> http://light.demon.co.uk/scripts/getPlaceURL.exe?q=Paris,%20France >> >> returns the XML: >> >> <result q="Paris, France" q1="Paris" q2="France" country="FR" >>url="http://api.geonames.org/search?style=short&name_equals=Paris&count>>ry >> =FR&username=demo" hits="5" geonameId="2988507" >> >>hierUrl="http://api.geonames.org/hierarchy?geonameId=2988507&username=d>>em >> o" hit1="true" hit2="true" >>certainty="100">http://www.geonames.org/2988507/</result> >> >> However, if you just give it "Paris" there is no guarantee it will be >>able to help you. (It does, but it shouldn't!) >> >> Lightweight URL-ifier tools like this (I have in mind one for dates >>and date ranges) may enable cataloguers to include URLs for concepts >>relatively low cost. >> >> Richard >> >> [1] http://www.culturegridhackday.org.uk/ >> [2] http://light.demon.co.uk/wordpress/?p=54 >> > > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1497/3492 - Release Date: 03/08/11 > -- Richard Light
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