[open-bibliography] British Library data announcement

Thu Nov 18 11:04:35 UTC 2010

Quoting Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:

> 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

http://rdvocab.info/ElementsGr2/dateOfDeath

Property of RDA Person entity.

kc

>
> 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
>> +44-1223-763069
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> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
>
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