Happy to be of use. There is also one for: * Swedish photo studios [1] * Norwegian photographers[2] * Norwegian photo studios [3] I'm less familiar with these though and don't have a timeline for wikidata integration.
Cheers, André [1] http://kulturnav.org/deb494a0-5457-4e5f-ae9b-e1826e0de681 [2] http://kulturnav.org/508197af-6e36-4e4f-927c-79f8f63654b2 [3] http://kulturnav.org/7d2a01d1-724c-4ad2-a18c-e799880a0241 ------ André Costa GLAM developer Wikimedia Sverige On 9 Dec 2015 15:07, "David Lowe" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 | >> [email protected] | +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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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