Super fantastic, Tom!!! Thanks! How many pages are there?
Tom Morris wrote: > Rather than just complain about the data quality, here's a small > contribution to help improve it. I put together a little application > which shows all authors who have multiple Open Library author records, > as identified by the Freebase community. > > You can find it at http://ol-dupes.freebaseapps.com/authors > > The list is sorted by from most to least number of duplicates and each > entry is linked to all OL records as well as the Freebase record. > Freebase uses a slightly different schema, so the authors are linked > to Books ("works" in FRBR lingo) and those are linked to Book Editions > which equate to the Open Library book records. > > I also included all the known names for the authors. Most of these > will have come from the merger of multiple records. I haven't looked > in detail, but it wouldn't surprise me if some of the bad names are > from munging on the Freebase side of things. You can see what the > name associated with each OL record is by clicking on the ID link. > > The app is better for browsing than actual data cleanup, but I'd be > happy to show someone how to extract the data in a form that could be > used in the OL processes (or do it for you). The app is BSD licensed > so anyone's free to hack on it as well. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
