The lccn links from the template have been giving a java exception for
the last few days at least: does the template or the server need fixing?

Graham

On 05/25/11 17:47, Ed Summers wrote:
> Hey Daniel,
> 
> It looks like you used the worldcat template [1]:
> 
>     {{worldcat id|id=lccn-n79-21614|VIAF=82088490}}
> 
> which doesn't actually do anything with the VIAF parameter. Instead
> (or as well) you'll want to use the Authority control template:
> 
>     {{Authority control|PND=118559796|LCCN=n/79/21614|VIAF=82088490}}
> 
> After I did that and the crawl ran again it showed up at linkypedia
> [3]. Thanks for giving it a try!
> 
> //Ed
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Worldcat_id
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control
> [3] http://linkypedia.info/websites/23/pages/
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Lovins, Daniel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 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
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> 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/
>>