The same could be done with Wikidata, connecting not only to author records, but also with works and editions records. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force
An example of a work with several editions: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6911 We already have Viaf identifiers, so connecting authors should be easy (provided the identifier exists in both databases). One question: Is there any url that can be used both for works (ex OL2931460W) and editions (ex. OL6110293M)? Or do we have to use different roots to generate the links? I see that there are three types http://openlibrary.org/works/ http://openlibrary.org/books/ http://openlibrary.org/authors/ But I don't know if internally you have something that would represent the three, like: http://openlibrary.org/entity/ Cheers, Micru On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Ben Companjen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On 31 August 2013 10:47, Richard Light <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll chip in here, rather than adding to your page, because I would like > to > > get some feedback from the list as to whether I'm out on a limb here > (given > > the lack of response to my last couple of posts). > > Not trying to be annoying, but I only found one recent post by you, > which got response on the ol-tech list (since the topic was a bit > technical). > > > > I would like the author information in OL to be better, and to be > > better-connected. Authors are people too (allegedly) and they offer a > > possibility, maybe the only possibility, of cross-linking OL to other > > (non-bibliographic) Linked Data resources. Obviously there's a trade-off > > here, in that we don't want to put contributors off by being too > demanding, > > but: > > Authors in OL may also be corporate entities (government bodies, > corporations, NGOs), conferences or group pseudonyms (although those > are more rare). There is no difference in the data yet, except for a > few records. > > > > the RDF provided for authors could make better use of the information > > currently available. For a start, it should include a list of "is author > of > > X" statements to link them to their works within OL. > Agreed. In the Work RDF there are links to Editions, so it's possible. > I already proposed some changes to the RDF output some time ago: > https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/136 but this was > not in it. > > > It should also include > > Wikipedia identifiers where these are present in the data > > By 'identifiers', did you mean URLs? There are Wikipedia URLs > ("Links") for some people. Some records include a special "wikipedia" > field. > > with a little gentle encouragement, we could make the author birth and > death > > date information usable in a machine-processing sense. Most dates are > > already useful as entered, despite the lack of guidelines > > we could enable the (structured) recording of place of birth and death. > > There are a handful of these in the data already, crammed in on the end > of > > the date field > > A bot should try to parse the dates and put these in the records in a > separate field (e.g. "date_of_birth_parsed"). The contents of this > field can then be transformed to an xsd:date value in RDF. > > > > Author names could be looked up on dbpedia, and if there is an existing > > entry (a) the link can be included in the OL data and (b) details like > > DoB/PoB can be copied from that source into the OL data. > > It is debatable whether that is allowed in accordance with the > CC-BY-SA licence that Wikipedia and DBpedia use, although we're not > too strict on the enforcement and don't use a less strict licence on > the OL data. Looking up a name in DBpedia could be challenging, but > experimenting is easy when you already have both datasets downloaded > in dump files. > > > > Richard > > Ben > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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