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*Oh yes, your clarification helps, Ralph. * * * ***So WP data ends up in a cluster (more than one entity) for a certain string that applies to more than one person/heading (therefore it is ambiguous). What processes is VIAF running to dis-ambiguate THAT heading?* *Ya'aqov* On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:04 AM, LeVan,Ralph <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think you misunderstood that Ya'aqov. > > What we do is make local authority records out of the Wikipedia records > that we've identified as names. So the adding dates and stuff is to the > local authority record of that Wikipedia record. We then use our usual VIAF > matching technology between those Wikipedia authority records and the other > authority records in VIAF. Wikipedia records that end up in a VIAF cluster > get kept and the others get dropped as not matching anything we have in > VIAF. > > I hope that helps! > > Ralph > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > > Ya'aqov Ziso > > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 5:15 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation > > > > Thanks Karen, but you don't indicate yet, how you solve disambiguation? > > > > You indicate how you use WP as a resource for adding dates and subjects > > when > > they are missing. > > You don't indicate when/how you are resolving ambiguities with WP data. > > > > Again, please use Morris William as an example, > > *Ya'aqov* > > > > > > > > > > > *Once a year OCLC downloads Wikipedia and then we extract as much > > > information from it as we can. This generally involves reading through > > > their current information for templates, etc. Then we try to figure > > > out which pages are people. Within the people pages we look for birth > > > dates, death dates, work titles, ISBNs, oclc numbers, worldcat > > > identity links, LCCNs ... anything that we have in VIAF for matching > > > purposes. Then we build marc-ish records for each of the extracted > > > person. After that the records go through the normal VIAF matching > > > processes. > > > > > > The process gets changed and tweaked each year.* > -- *ya'aqov**ZISO | **[log in to unmask] **| 856 217 3456 *