Thanks, André! I don't know that I've found that before. Great to get country (or region) specific lists like this. D
On Wednesday, December 9, 2015, André Costa <andre.co...@wikimedia.se> wrote: > In case you haven't come across it before > http://kulturnav.org/1f368832-7649-4386-97b6-ae40cce8752b is the entry > point to the Swedish database of (primarily early) photographers curated by > the Nordic Museum in Stockholm. > > It's not that well integrated into Wikidata yet but the plan is to fix > that during early 2016. That would also allow a variety of photographs on > Wikimedia Commons to be linked to these entries. > > Cheers, > André > > André Costa | GLAM developer, Wikimedia Sverige | andre.co...@wikimedia.se > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','andre.co...@wikimedia.se');> | > +46 (0)733-964574 > > Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. > Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se > > On 9 December 2015 at 02:44, David Lowe <davidl...@nypl.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','davidl...@nypl.org');>> wrote: > >> Thanks, Tom. >> I'll have to look at this specific case when I'm back at work tomorrow, >> as it does seem you found something in error. >> As for my process: with WD, I queried out the label, description & >> country of citizenship, dob & dod of of everyone with occupation: >> photographer. After some cleaning, I can get the WD data formatted like my >> own (Name, Nationality, Dates). I can then do a simple match, where >> everything matches exactly. For the remainder, I then match names and >> dates- without Nationality, which is often very "soft" information. For >> those that pass a smell test (one is "English" the other is "British") I >> pass those along, too. For those with greater discrepancies, I look still >> closer. For those with still greater discrepancies, I manually, >> individually query my database for anyone with the same last name & same >> first initial to catch misspellings or different transliterations. I also >> occasionally put my entire database into open refine to catch instances >> where, for instance, a Chinese name has been given as FamilyName, GivenName >> in one source, and GivenName, FamilyName in another. >> In short, this is scrupulously- and manually- checked data. I'm not savvy >> enough to let an algorithm make my mistakes for me! But let me know if this >> seems to be more than bad luck of the draw- finding the conflicting data >> you found. >> I have also to say, I may suppress the Niepce Museum collection, as it's >> from a really crappy list of photographers in their collection which I >> found many years ago, and can no longer find. I don't want to blame them >> for the discrepancy, but that might be the source. I don't know. >> As I start to query out places of birth & death from WD in the next days, >> I expect to find more discrepancies. (Just today, I found dozens of folks >> whom ULAN gendered one way, and WD another- but were undeniably the same >> photographer. ) >> Thanks, >> David >> >> >> On Tuesday, December 8, 2015, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tfmor...@gmail.com');>> wrote: >> >>> Can you explain what "indexing" means in this context? Is there some >>> type of matching process? How are duplicates resolved, if at all? Was the >>> Wikidata info extracted from a dump or one of the APIs? >>> >>> When I looked at the first person I picked at random, Pierre Berdoy >>> (ID:269710), I see that both Wikidata and Wikipedia claim that he was born >>> in Biarritz while the NYPL database claims he was born in Nashua, NH. So, >>> it would appear that there are either two different people with the same >>> name, born in different places, or the birth place is wrong. >>> >>> >>> http://mgiraldo.github.io/pic/?&biography.TermID=2028247&Location=269710|42.7575,-71.4644 >>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3383941 >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:10 PM, David Lowe <davidl...@nypl.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> The Photographers' Identities Catalog (PIC) is an ongoing project of >>>> visualizing photo history through the lives of photographers and photo >>>> studios. I have information on 115,000 photographers and studios as of >>>> tonight. It is still under construction, but as I've almost completed an >>>> initial indexing of the ~12,000 photographers in WikiData, I thought I'd >>>> share it with you. We (the New York Public Library) hope to launch it >>>> officially in mid to late January. This represents about 12 years worth of >>>> my work of researching in NYPL's photography collection, censuses and >>>> business directories, and scraping or indexing trusted websites, databases, >>>> and published biographical dictionaries pertaining to photo history. >>>> Again, please bear in mind that our programmer is still hard at work >>>> (and I continue to refine and add to the data*), but we welcome your >>>> feedback, questions, critiques, etc. To see the WikiData photographers, >>>> select WikiData from the Source dropdown. Have fun! >>>> >>>> *PIC* >>>> <http://mgiraldo.github.io/pic/?address.AddressTypeID=*&address.CountryID=*&Nationality=*&gender.TermID=*&process.TermID=*&role.TermID=*&format.TermID=*&biography.TermID=*&collection.TermID=*&Location=*&DisplayName=*&Date=*> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> David >>>> >>>> *Tomorrow, for instance, I'll start mining Wikidata for birth & death >>>> locations. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikidata mailing list >>>> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>>> >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org');> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >
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