On 22 Sep 2009, at 22:48, Julian Todd wrote: > For all these projects, I've got a theory that we should be using > Wikipedia article names as unique ids (there's a well-defined article > for each MP and constituency) because they are (a) human readable and > useful in themselves, and (b) very likely to result in compatible ids > being used across all our projects.
(c) Wikipedia makes disambiguation very easy. :) There's also a direct link between wikipedia URLs and DBPedia, which then links off to a bunch of other sources (albeit mostly irrelevant, unless your MP's also in a band or something). But you don't really need to switch unique ids to benefit from that, just have a mapping, which already exists in TWFY (getMPInfo returns the wikipedia URL for everyone I've seen so far in the database), and that's all you need for Linked Data to work. So I think it'd be worthwhile making it easier to go back and forth between person_id (and by implication, TWFY profile and parliament.uk) and Wikipedia URL. I'm really new around here and I don't want to be stepping on any toes - what's the deal with coding? Is it something you want to keep tidy and in-house, do you accept CVS patches, or prefer something like a single-serving site that just handles the transition to/from wikipedia/ dbpedia with an http redirect, for example? It's certainly not my intention to march in here and start waving my php dick around, but I'm more than happy to spare a couple of weekends if there's any call for it. :) -- Matt Robinson http://inanimatt.com/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
