[OpenGLAM] Call for reliable sources for biographical data

Thu Jan 21 15:26:42 UTC 2016

Hi Marco

Most of the digital.nls.uk resources will have OCR transcriptions associated with them.  The Library licenses OCR transcriptions as CC-BY.  I could supply an XML file that contains the OCR for each of the titles/volumes.  Let me know.

Best wishes
Gill

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From: Marco Fossati [mailto:fossati at spaziodati.eu]
Sent: 21 January 2016 13:54
To: Kristian Nordestgaard
Cc: Hamilton, Gill; open-glam at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [OpenGLAM] Call for reliable sources for biographical data

(Removing other lists from CC, as open glam seems the most relevant one)

Thanks a lot Gill and Kristian for the pointers.
I should have been more specific in my request, as I am actually looking for biographies **written in English** and available as **parsable raw text** (embedded in whatever format).
Hence, @Gill, are the resources from digital.nls.uk<http://digital.nls.uk> available in a format other than a book?
And @Kristian, are the biographies from Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon also available in English?

Thanks again to everyone!
Cheers,

Marco
Il 20 gen 2016 9:41 PM, "Kristian Nordestgaard" <kristian9k at gmail.com<mailto:kristian9k at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
Danish artists: https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/

The page is in a mix of English and Danish, sadly, but I believe you can work out the basics regardless.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Hamilton, Gill <G.Hamilton at nls.uk<mailto:G.Hamilton at nls.uk>> wrote:

Hi Marco

Not sure if this is the sort of thing you are looking for …..

The biographical dictionary of Scottish Women

ISBN 0748617132

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_biographical_dictionary_of_Scottish.html?id=QIRnAAAAMAAJ

Histories of Scottish families

http://digital.nls.uk/93506071

Genealogical collections concerning families in Scotland, made by Walter Macfarlane, 1750-1751

http://digital.nls.uk/74466633

Biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen

http://digital.nls.uk/74458002

Library of Congress Name Authority file (LCNAF)

These authorised versions of names are created as a result of literary warrant

http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First - text version

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html - RDF/LOD version

Virtual International Authority File

In use already on Wikipedia, includes LCNAF and many other name authority files from national libraries.

https://viaf.org/ has RDF representation too

Cheers

Gill

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Subject: [OpenGLAM] Call for reliable sources for biographical data

Hi everyone,

The StrepHit IEG project [1] is currently in the phase of curating a list of reliable sources containing biographical data.

The mix'n'match tool [2] already maintains a list.

Can anyone involved in GLAM projects please suggest any more reliable sources?

Thanks for getting in touch with me!

Cheers,

Marco

[1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References

[2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/

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