Very cool! Thanks! Ralph On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Lovins, Daniel <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Ralph, all, > > 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}} > > Based on description on this Wikipedia page: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control > > / Daniel > > -----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 > > > > > Are there any guidelines us wikipedians should be using to increase the > > likelihood of matches? I'm thinking in particular of the representation > of > > uncertain dates. > > > > The first step in the process is identifying entries for people. The > presence of a Persondata block in the article is very helpful. > > 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. > > Dates is not a big deal. Wikipedia records are full of dates and we cope > with fuzziness in dates reasonably well. > > > > 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? > > > > There is a template for entering WorldCat Identities URLs. I don't believe > there is one yet for VIAF. > > 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 > of > 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! > > Ralph >