Since no one mentioned it, there is a tool to do the matching to WD much more efficiently: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, 01:10 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 >
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