I should have been more expansive in my description of what I'm doing.

My end-game is to map all authorised personal name LCCNs minted or edited
by my local national library to usable wikidata.org items.

I have an RSS feed of LCCNs at https://id.loc.gov/tools/mynames/nz/feed/1 -
https://id.loc.gov/tools/mynames/nz/feed/475

Currently I'm downloading the HTML of LCCNs from the LoC and running them
through an XSL script and bunging them into mix and match. See
https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/7866 for example. [Non-person
and/not applicable items there are LCCNs which I should not have uploaded
and/or ones I've queried with appropriate authorities.]

I'm attempting to incrementally improve the script as I go. I'm currently ~
500 LCCNs in, out of ~ 15000 LCCNs total.

I'm also manually replacing all modern ethnicity claims with claims backed
by indigenous sources or silently dropping them.

Obviously I'll make the tooling available for others if they want it.

cheers
stuart

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On Mon, 4 May 2026 at 08:25, Stuart A. Yeates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Does anyone know of somewhere that describes LCCN authorised personal
> names as regexps? I want to be able to rewrite them at scale to 'normal'
> order.
>
> AI appears to be actively undermining the functionality of search engines.
>
> cheers
> stuart
> --
> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>