Magnus,
Yes, I'm curious to run the data through mix-n-match to see what it catches that I didn't (and vice versa). I've finished an initial matching and have all but about 700 names from WD to either enter into PIC, or reject (sorry Spiderman, PIC is only for actual photographers). I just updated PIC with more links into Wikipedias (almost 12,000 links now).
Once PIC is actually launched and at a permanent url (January sometime), I'd love to get PIC ID #s into the WD records.
d


On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:

Since no one mentioned it, there is a tool to do the matching to WD much more efficiently:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/


On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, 01:10 David Lowe <davidlowe@nypl.org> wrote:
Hello all,
The Photographers' Identities Catalog (PIC) is an ongoing project of visualizing photo history through the lives of photographers and photo studios. I have information on 115,000 photographers and studios as of tonight. It is still under construction, but as I've almost completed an initial indexing of the ~12,000 photographers in WikiData, I thought I'd share it with you. We (the New York Public Library) hope to launch it officially in mid to late January. This represents about 12 years worth of my work of researching in NYPL's photography collection, censuses and business directories, and scraping or indexing trusted websites, databases, and published biographical dictionaries pertaining to photo history.
Again, please bear in mind that our programmer is still hard at work (and I continue to refine and add to the data*), but we welcome your feedback, questions, critiques, etc. To see the WikiData photographers, select WikiData from the Source dropdown. Have fun!


Thanks,
David

*Tomorrow,  for instance, I'll start mining Wikidata for birth & death locations.
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