Daniel, the template's very good indeed.
Note though, VIAF includes already LCCN and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. It
suffices for such name needs for WP. That reinforces Ralph's call for
linking Identities and VIAF into Wikipedia records,  *Ya'aqov*
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*On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Lovins, Daniel <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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> *Ralph, all,
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> Regarding the Wikipedia template for VIAF, haven't tried it myself, but I
> believe the following syntax works: {{Authority
> control|PND=119408643|LCCN=n/79/113947|VIAF=59263727}}
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> Based on description on this Wikipedia page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control
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> / Daniel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Ralph LeVan
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:23 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation
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> *> Are there any guidelines us wikipedians should be using to increase the
> > likelihood of matches? I'm thinking in particular of the representation
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> > uncertain dates.
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> The first step in the process is identifying entries for people.  The
> presence of a Persondata block in the article is very helpful.
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> An unambiguous way to encode titles would help.  Apparently there are
> markup
> rules for titles, but they are much abused by editors using them to
> emphasize text in articles and are unreliable to the point of being
> ignored.
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> Dates is not a big deal.  Wikipedia records are full of dates and we cope
> with fuzziness in dates reasonably well.
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> > Are there perhaps 'ground truth' URLs such as links into identities /
> VIAF
> > which we can use? If so, what is the exact form of those URLs?
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> There is a template for entering WorldCat Identities URLs.  I don't believe
> there is one yet for VIAF.
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> We've been working for a couple of years now on getting permission to put
> Identities and VIAF links into Wikipedia records.  As it happens, several
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> us in Research are meeting again on Thursday to discuss this.  Apparently
> there has been some sort of movement on that topic.  Any help you can
> provide would be appreciated!
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> Ralph
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