| daniel added a comment. |
In T127929#2604421, @Jan_Dittrich wrote:
- @daniel You said that we have the plain name but want to find the URL. From my experience of adding images, which I did not create, to commons, I usually have the URL but not the Name. Or is this not covered by the issue?
You usually have the URL (or URI) of the author, but not the name? That seems strange to me, can you give examples? Or do you just have a source URL for the image?
- Usecases:
- Find an URL based on name
That's straight forward enough, for a handful of authority files.
- Find a Name based on URL
If we have a URI from some authority file that identifies the author, they probably also have some API to get the author's name. Such APIs are probably all different, so we can only handle a handful of well known cases.
- Paste the image-URL in the author field and it automatically resolves to authorname, and author URI (but it needs magic for these services, so it is not a good core thing)
If all we have is the source URL of the file, we can still hope that there is some kind of API to retrieve additional information, like the author. But this will be highly specific to the image repo. We might do something special for Flickr, but beyond that, this kind of work should probably be done by the import bot/script/gadget.
- It is talked about the name as (identifying a) "Person". I wonder why this is not "Creator/Author" or the like. (In copyright there seem to be many roles, and I wonder how we cover this – or will that e mapped on top?)
"Person" is the data type, the kind of thing, not the role. For the roles, we will have several properties using that type, e.g. rights holder, photographer, painter, person depicted, etc.
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