[open-bibliography] British Library data announcement

Thu Nov 18 09:25:26 UTC 2010

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 09:12 +0000, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> 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

Yep - I've even drawn some pics about that :)

http://openbiblio.net/2010/11/17/augmenting-the-british-librarys-rdf-data-to-allow-for-disambiguation/

Ben


> 
> 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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