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/