RE: Name mapper toop through OCLC naming authority checked in

Hi Kevin

I am very impressed that you managed to get this to work so quickly.

However some matches seem to fail, notably

John W Belcher
http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/
As far as I can see none of the 14 hits returned by OCLC match this
individual. 

Stephen P Bell
http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/facultyareas/facresearch/bell.shtml
None of the 8 matches returned by OCLC match this individual

Also I'm not quite sure how the matches were arrived at - for example 

Stephen P Bell matches
William Chatto, Stephen W Piper, Stephen William Paine, Stephen Colwell,
Stephen Bell, Steve Poole, William Stephen Pufko, Stephen William Peter
Hampton

Michael Ernst matches
Lange, Ernst Michael, Dronke, Peter, Oberdieck, Ernst-Michael, Lang, Ernst
Michael, Dreher, Michael Ernst,--1944-, Mohle, Ernst-Michael, Steffan,
Ernst-Michael, Ernst-Poerksen, Michael, Ettmuller, Michael
Ernst,--1673-1732, Christoph, Ernst Michael, Winter, Ernst Michael,
Hackbarth, E. M.--(Ernst-Michael), Kranich, Ernst Michael

So there is a danger in a few cases we would end up adding large amounts of
irrelevant data - is there any way to guard against this?

Dr Mark H. Butler
Research Scientist                HP Labs Bristol
mark-h_butler@hp.com
Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Smathers [mailto:kevin.smathers@hp.com]
> Sent: 01 November 2003 00:10
> To: SIMILE public list
> Subject: Name mapper toop through OCLC naming authority checked in
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've finished a first pass at mapping OCW names to the OCLC naming 
> authority through their web service.  The name 
> canonicalizer/mapper tool 
> is in simile/tools/ims.   Naming authority responses are in 
> the 'names' 
> subdirectory, and the resulting map is in 'namelist.rdf' and 
> the source 
> list of names extracted from the OCW data files and used as 
> input to the 
> canonicalizer is in 'namelist.txt'.
> 
> The output isn't yet quite legal RDF syntax.  Please bear with.
> 
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