is the entry
point to the Swedish database of (primarily early) photographers curated by
the Nordic Museum in Stockholm.
It's not that well integrated into Wikidata yet but the plan is to fix
that during early 2016. That would also allow a variety of photographs on
Wikimedia Commons to be linked to these entries.
Cheers,
André
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On 9 December 2015 at 02:44, David Lowe <davidlowe(a)nypl.org
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Thanks, Tom.
I'll have to look at this specific case when I'm back at work tomorrow,
as it does seem you found something in error.
As for my process: with WD, I queried out the label, description &
country of citizenship, dob & dod of of everyone with occupation:
photographer. After some cleaning, I can get the WD data formatted like my
own (Name, Nationality, Dates). I can then do a simple match, where
everything matches exactly. For the remainder, I then match names and
dates- without Nationality, which is often very "soft" information. For
those that pass a smell test (one is "English" the other is
"British") I
pass those along, too. For those with greater discrepancies, I look still
closer. For those with still greater discrepancies, I manually,
individually query my database for anyone with the same last name & same
first initial to catch misspellings or different transliterations. I also
occasionally put my entire database into open refine to catch instances
where, for instance, a Chinese name has been given as FamilyName, GivenName
in one source, and GivenName, FamilyName in another.
In short, this is scrupulously- and manually- checked data. I'm not savvy
enough to let an algorithm make my mistakes for me! But let me know if this
seems to be more than bad luck of the draw- finding the conflicting data
you found.
I have also to say, I may suppress the Niepce Museum collection, as it's
from a really crappy list of photographers in their collection which I
found many years ago, and can no longer find. I don't want to blame them
for the discrepancy, but that might be the source. I don't know.
As I start to query out places of birth & death from WD in the next days,
I expect to find more discrepancies. (Just today, I found dozens of folks
whom ULAN gendered one way, and WD another- but were undeniably the same
photographer. )
Thanks,
David
On Tuesday, December 8, 2015, Tom Morris <tfmorris(a)gmail.com
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Can you explain what "indexing" means
in this context? Is there some
type of matching process? How are duplicates resolved, if at all? Was the
Wikidata info extracted from a dump or one of the APIs?
When I looked at the first person I picked at random, Pierre Berdoy
(ID:269710), I see that both Wikidata and Wikipedia claim that he was born
in Biarritz while the NYPL database claims he was born in Nashua, NH. So,
it would appear that there are either two different people with the same
name, born in different places, or the birth place is wrong.
http://mgiraldo.github.io/pic/?&biography.TermID=2028247&Location=2…
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3383941
Tom
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:10 PM, David Lowe <davidlowe(a)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!
*PIC*
<http://mgiraldo.github.io/pic/?address.AddressTypeID=*&address.CountryID=*&Nationality=*&gender.TermID=*&process.TermID=*&role.TermID=*&format.TermID=*&biography.TermID=*&collection.TermID=*&Location=*&DisplayName=*&Date=*>
Thanks,
David
*Tomorrow, for instance, I'll start mining Wikidata for birth & death
locations.
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