[okfn-labs] nomenklatura - thinking about naming

Wed Apr 24 11:12:07 UTC 2013

Sounds good. So let's do "Entity" and "Alias".

Thanks Rufus and Gregor!

- Friedrich

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 24 April 2013 09:01, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to brush up the interface and docs for nomenklatura
> > (http://nomenklatura.pudo.org/) at some point, and the hardest thing
> about
> > this project is naming. Let me give you my one-sentence on what
> nomenklatura
> > does:
> >
> > Nomenklatura is a data cleansing service that provides automated and
> manual
> > options for merging multiple forms of a name into a canonical form.
> >
> > Example: when going through political databases, you may encounter not
> just
> > "Angela Merkel", but also "Angela Merkel, CDU", "Angela Merkel,
> Chancellor",
> > "Mrs. Angela Merkel", "MERKEL, Angela" etc. Nomenklatura does some basic
> > normalisation and matching to solve the easy cases here, and then gives a
> > nice UI to solve the harder merges by hand. In the end, you would have a
> > single entry with a list of aliases.
> >
> > At the moment, the canonical form is called a "Value" in the domain
> model,
> > while the aliases are called "Link". This has lead to confusion. I
> therefore
> > want to rename the domain entities, so here's my questions:
> >
> > 1) What would people on this list call the canonical value (e.g. Entity,
> > Lemma, ...)?
>
> I'd go for entity.
>
> > 2) What about the aliases (e.g. Alias, Link, SurfaceForm)?
>
> I'm a +1 on either Alias (which I think is very clear - and better
> than link). I also like Gregor's suggestion of
>
> > 3) How would you pitch it?
>
> Is reconciliation becoming a term of art here? i.e. Nomenklatura is
> hosted Reconciliation.
>
> Gregor's suggestion of Named Entity Normalization seems very good too
> - says what it does on the tin.
>
> Rufus
>
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > - Friedrich
> >
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