On 28 March 2012 14:18, Ross Singer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 27, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: > >> On 27 March 2012 18:05, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 3/27/12 3:08 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: >>> >>>> - we want to keep the distinction between foaf:Person and other >>>> entities, so changing the author template to use foaf:Agent (because >>>> we cannot tell the difference at the moment) is not accepted. >>>> I created issue 145 [1] to 'standardize' the values for entity_type >>>> found in author records. Using its value ("person" for humans and >>>> pseudonyms, "org" for organization) or its absence, we can choose >>>> foaf:Person, foaf:Organization or foaf:Agent. >>> >>> I wonder if some of this cannot be done using a comparison to VIAF -- >>> because in VIAF there should be coding to indicate whether it is a >>> person or a corporation. Also, some of this information could be >>> recovered from the original input records. We could use the MARC coding >>> from library data, and any unmatched strings from other sources like >>> Amazon could be designated "Agent" until a match is found from a source >>> that makes the distinction. >> >> I think it must be possible, but first I think we should have a way of >> storing the information. We can use VIAF if the license terms allow >> us; Tom Morris pointed out on GitHub that it may be for non-commercial >> use only. The PD/CC0 MARC records are available anyway, so surely they >> can be re-read to extract the information. >> > > Hi Ben, > > Which MARC records are you referring to here? > > -Ross.
Hi Ross, I was talking in general about the MARC records that most data in Open Library are based on. At least some of them are CC0 or dedicated to the public domain: http://archive.org/details/ol_data Since that data is available, I was thinking we can use them again. Or am I wrong here? Ben _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
