That's really cool, Ed. I just added the viaf # for Immanuel Kant. Took just a few seconds. I'll subscribe to the linkypedia rss feed and watch for notification.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ed Summers
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 4:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation

Big +1 for promoting the use of the Authority Control Wikipedia
template.I know i'm being a bit of a broken record, but you can watch
as people add these by looking at or subscribing to:

    http://linkypedia.inkdroid.org/websites/23/pages/

Also, re: Jonathan's good advice to check out Wikipedia Miner [1] I
just ran across Duke [2] today, which looks like it could help guide
record linking a bit.

"""
Duke is a fast and flexible deduplication (or entity resolution, or
record linkage) engine written in Java on top of Lucene. At the moment
(2011-04-07) it can process 1,000,000 records in 11 minutes on a
standard laptop in a single thread.
"""

Haven't tried it yet, so YMMV, etc.

//Ed

[1] http://wikipedia-miner.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/duke/