Hello Mia
Thanks for the response. Do you keep the underlying date fields in full date format or in just year format? Is your display date is a text field?
Thanks
Sarah
On 13 Dec 2013, at 11:32, Mia wrote:
> True, I didn't really mean 'a set' - obviously it would be 'sets' of
> URLs. But I think Richard's point about material within the cultural
> heritage domain sets important boundaries - most people listed as
> makers, designers, patrons, etc in collections databases are notable
> enough for wikipedia/dbpedia, but you would start to find multiple
> references to them across Europeana/Digital Public Library of
> America/Trove etc - doing something with the existing data in those
> big repositories would be a good start. Barry/Dominic - will the
> British Museum's ResearchSpace stuff tie into other systems or would
> people bring their data to ResearchSpace?
>
> More contextual information is definitely a help but it's still
> difficult to automate matches. I've seen various academic projects
> that use manual verification of potential concordances (i.e. is the
> Dorothea Erxleben in this site the same person as Dorothea Leporin on
> that site) and as a microtask it would be perfect for a focused
> crowdsourcing project.
>
> There are various projects to build historical gazetteers to provide a
> Geonames/Foursquare for the past (and as usual the classicists/ancient
> world people are quietly getting on with it in e.g.
> http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-pelagios.html), etc,
> etc.
>
> On Sarah's point - I don't know if it helps but in the past I've
> separated the 'display date' from underlying date fields (period,
> earliest date, latest date, designed/manufactured/distributed date,
> etc) to provide a neat, computer-friendly version while keeping the
> original data as messy as it needs to be. It's an attempt to have all
> records show on things like timelines even when the exact date isn't
> known or isn't a simple question.
>
> Cheers, Mia
>
> On 13 December 2013 11:10, Frankie Roberto <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Mia wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, Richard, for sharing your work* and your conclusions. I
>>> agree - any uses of open cultural data would benefit from an
>>> authoritative set of URLs about relevant people, places, materials,
>>> events and concepts to use as a shared reference. In practical terms,
>>> does anything currently or almost in existence come close to that now?
>>
>> This is definitely an issue.
>>
>> My bet is that we’re unlikely to get a single set of authoritative URLs / ids for people/places/etc.
>
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