I found the WorldCat Identities API useful for an institution name disambiguation project that I worked on a few years ago, though my goal wasn't to confirm whether names mapped to LCNAF. The API response includes a LCCN, and you can set it to fuzzy or exact matching, but you would need to write a script to pass each term in and process the results:
http://oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/worldcat-identities.en.html I also can't speak to whether all LC Name Authorities are represented, so there may be a chance of some false negatives. OCLC has another API, but not sure if it covers corporate names: https://platform.worldcat.org/api-explorer/LCNAF I suspect there are others on the list that know more about the inner workings of these APIs if this might be an option for you... :) Karen -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 3:54 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Reconciling corporate names? I would check with the developers of SNAC ( http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/), as they've spent a lot of time developing named entity recognition scripts for personal and corporate names. They might have something you can reuse. Ethan On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Galligan, Patrick <pgalli...@rockarch.org> wrote: > I'm looking to reconcile about 40,000 corporate names against LCNAF to > see whether they are authorized strings or not, but I'm drawing a > blank about how to get it done. > > I've used http://freeyourmetadata.org/ for reconciling subject > headings before, but I can't get it to work for LCNAF. Has anyone had > any experience in a project like this? I'd love to hear some ideas for > automatically dealing with a large data set like this that we did not > create and do not know how the names were created. > > Thanks! > > -Patrick Galligan >
