[open-bibliography] British Library data announcement

Thu Nov 18 09:12:56 UTC 2010

http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html#Death (although has a level of 
indirection you may find annoying. You can't just say X died Y, you have 
to say X Death D
D date Y

Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> Thanks Will,
>
> One great idea for a use-case has surfaced today (anonymous, but I'll 
> give credit if I get permission) - to add the author's death-date to 
> bibliography. This has immediate and widespread practicality in the 
> OKF with the release of the copyright calculator. It should be 
> possible to mashup chunks of the bibliography with DBPedia and I would 
> expect this could resolve many authors (with, of course the problem of 
> disambiguation). However known lists of authors with death dates might 
> also help with the disambiguation.
>
> But maybe you have all thought of this already.
>
> -- 
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
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