On 3/13/13 11:01 AM, kltrg wrote: > Karen Coyle: >> Are you referring to places as subjects? Right now most of the subjects >> are in English. However, for places it would be great to link them to an >> actual database of place names, such as geonames.org, and/or with the >> appropriate entry in dbpedia. That would create an identifier for the >> place, but more work would be needed to allow searching on the alternate >> name forms. > > Yes, I meant subjects. > But I think linking to a such places-database makes sense for publication > city and places mentioned in the book. Both would benefit from being > searchable in different languages. Is the technically possible? Because it > sounds great like you described it, Karen. >
In library data there are actually two data elements for place of publication: 1. The place as listed on the book, which helps you identify another copy of the same book (because the place listed is the same - same language, even same typo if that's the case) 2. A code for the place of publication that is language neutral. #2 is limited in granularity because it only includes the country (or country and state, for the US). But a similar code could be derived from the place as listed in the book. If you look at http://geonames.org, you can do a lookup by name and get entries for one or more places with that name. There are databases that have done this algorithmically -- not 100% accurate, of course, but undoubtedly a good start. kc > kltrg > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
