Curious what script you've used that isn't production ready -- I don't
think you meant to post in the URL for the JQuery library?
On 5/19/2011 10:39 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
This sounds like a great way to "translate" from library forms to
wikipedia name forms. But for on-the-fly use I wonder if it wouldn't
be more efficient to eliminate the "middle man." Karen, can you say a
little about what it took to link library names to WP? Was it a
one-step, two-step, etc.?
There is a script that I've seen used, although it doesn't seem to be
production ready:
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js
One interesting note from the OL experience of linking to WP:
generally you need to "re-reverse" the names to get a match: from
Twain, Mark to Mark Twain. But for some names that isn't the case:
Mao, Tse-Tung. Edward Betts used Wikipedia to determine which names do
not get "re-reversed".
The OL code for its wikipedia lookup is at:
https://github.com/openlibrary/openlibrary/tree/master/openlibrary/catalog/wikipedia
It, however, runs against dumps rather than an API.
kc
Quoting Karen Coombs <librarywebc...@gmail.com>:
Graham,
I'd advocate using WorldCat Identities to get to the appropriate url
for dbpedia. Each Identity record has a wikipedia element in it that
you could use to link to either Wikipedia or dbpedia.
If you want to see an example of this in action you can check out the
Author Info demo I did for code4lib 2010 here -
http://www.librarywebchic.net/mashups/author_info/info_about_this_author.php?OCLCNum=32939031
The code for this demo is available for download at -
http://www.worldcat.org/devnet/code/devnetDemos/trunk/
You'll want the author_info folder and identity_info.php
Karen
Karen A. Coombs
Product Manager
OCLC Developer Network
coom...@oclc.org
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:40 AM, graham <gra...@theseamans.net> wrote:
I need to be able to take author data from a catalogue record and
use it
to look up the author on Wikipedia on the fly. So I may have birth date
and possibly year of death in addition to (one spelling of) the name,
the title of one book the author wrote etc.
I know there are various efforts in progress that will improve the
current situation, but as things stand at the moment what is the best*
way to do this?
1. query wikipedia for as much as possible, parse and select the best
fitting result
2. go via dbpedia/freebase and work back from there
3. use VIAF and/or OCLC services
4. Other?
(I have no experience of 2-4 yet :-(
Thanks
Graham
* 'best' being constrained by:
- need to do this in real-time
- need to avoid dependence on services which may be taken away
or charged for
- being able to justify to librarians as reasonably accurate :-)
