[pdb-discuss] british library screen scraping

[Timothy Cowlishaw]

On 9 Apr 2006, at 10:11, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> Feel free to comment on/amend this (either on the wiki or here)


One thought....

"Add information on composers (specifically date of birth)"

Could we branch this data off into a seperate table, and even develop  
a screenscraper  for wikipedia to get composers dates of birth for us?

If we had a script which scraped the wikipedia list of classical  
composers, and dug down to each article to get the date of birth,  
then dumped the name and date of birth in a database table,  and set  
this to run at regular (infrequent) intervals, all the 'composer'  
fields in the table of 'recordings' could reference this 'composers'  
table...


cheers,

Tim