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We talked a bit about this at LOD-LAM; Asaf Bartov of the Wikimedia foundation offered to help make this work better. email me if you need a a contact. On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Ralph LeVan wrote: > Yes, the bot was approved, but in a much more limited application that was > initially intended (make a link between Wikipedia records and corresponding > OpenLibrary records.) And the conversation was quite rancorous for granting > permission to an organization philosophically much closer to Wikipedia than > OCLC would seem to be. > > I don't think we'll be able to make this happen without a lot of help. > > Ralph > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ralph LeVan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> OCLC Research would desperately love to add VIAF links to Wikipedia >>> articles, but it seems to be very difficult. The OpenLibrary folks tried >> to >>> do it a while back and ended up getting their plans severely curtailed. >> The >>> discussion at Wikipedia is captured here: >>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/OpenlibraryBot >> >> Ralph if you read that entire discussion it sounds like the bot was >> approved. Am I missing something? >> >> //Ed >>