Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Source of VIAF identifiers (and LCCN, ...)

2013-01-18 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
it seems that some authority template instances existed before the latest DBpedia release (e.g. [1]) so these properties were extracted from the infoboxExtractor. Infobox extractor extracts greedily and usually it has very low quality, but in this case viaf is a number so the quality is actually v

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Source of VIAF identifiers (and LCCN, ...)

2013-01-17 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Dimitris, Thanks for interrupting ;) It's a good thing then, that I was held back by the definition of the LCCN property (domain WrittenWork). I'll let the mapping rest for now. Based on my understanding of the "How to create a mapping" pages, I was going to use only PropertyMappings, as the t

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Source of VIAF identifiers (and LCCN, ...)

2013-01-17 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
Hi Ben, Roland I've been following this for a while and according to OCLC there should be ~25 ;) http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012/12-07a.html I already tried to see how we can handle this info but unfortunatelly it is not supported by the framework yet so. please do not make any mapping

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Source of VIAF identifiers (and LCCN, ...)

2013-01-17 Thread Roland Cornelissen
Hi Ben, You have rights now to edit mappings: Happy Mapping to you! It will be great if you add these kind of authority data mappings. There is some nice info in there for linking data. Cheers, Roland On 01/17/2013 11:07 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: Hi all, I was wondering where the identifier

[Dbpedia-discussion] Source of VIAF identifiers (and LCCN, ...)

2013-01-17 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi all, I was wondering where the identifiers for VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) came from. They (and e.g. LCCNs) are usually input in Authority control templates, but there is no mapping for that template [1]. (Can I make that? I just registered as Bencomp.) Somehow they were mapped