We look for common work titles and common dates primarily. I believe there are also sometimes actual links to other authority records.
Ralph On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Ya'aqov Ziso <yaaq...@gmail.com> wrote: > *Oh yes, your clarification helps, Ralph. * > * > * > ***So WP data ends up in a cluster (more than one entity) for a certain > string that applies to more than one person/heading (therefore it is > ambiguous). What processes is VIAF running to dis-ambiguate THAT heading?* > *Ya'aqov* > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:04 AM, LeVan,Ralph <le...@oclc.org> wrote: > > > I think you misunderstood that Ya'aqov. > > > > What we do is make local authority records out of the Wikipedia records > > that we've identified as names. So the adding dates and stuff is to the > > local authority record of that Wikipedia record. We then use our usual > VIAF > > matching technology between those Wikipedia authority records and the > other > > authority records in VIAF. Wikipedia records that end up in a VIAF > cluster > > get kept and the others get dropped as not matching anything we have in > > VIAF. > > > > I hope that helps! > > > > Ralph > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf > Of > > > Ya'aqov Ziso > > > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 5:15 PM > > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation > > > > > > Thanks Karen, but you don't indicate yet, how you solve disambiguation? > > > > > > You indicate how you use WP as a resource for adding dates and subjects > > > when > > > they are missing. > > > You don't indicate when/how you are resolving ambiguities with WP data. > > > > > > Again, please use Morris William as an example, > > > *Ya'aqov* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Once a year OCLC downloads Wikipedia and then we extract as much > > > > information from it as we can. This generally involves reading > through > > > > their current information for templates, etc. Then we try to figure > > > > out which pages are people. Within the people pages we look for birth > > > > dates, death dates, work titles, ISBNs, oclc numbers, worldcat > > > > identity links, LCCNs ... anything that we have in VIAF for matching > > > > purposes. Then we build marc-ish records for each of the extracted > > > > person. After that the records go through the normal VIAF matching > > > > processes. > > > > > > > > The process gets changed and tweaked each year.* > > > > > > -- > *ya'aqov**ZISO | **yaaq...@gmail.com **| 856 217 3456 > > * >
