Magnus Manske wrote:
On 10/31/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Browsing through a PD version of _Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians_ (1919), we're missing articles on *almost all* of the people in it!
I have found only the 1st edition as full text (Google edition is searchable only). From that, I ran a quick script and extracted over 4000 names to [1]. I then ran another script to remove "blue links" [2], whicl leaves close to 2700 red links.
That would mean we're missing over 65% of the musicians; however, there are some bogus entries and lots'o' OCR error in there. Feel free to cleanup, redirect, and, of course, write articles!
Thanks! Looks like I was rather pessimistic with my 15-20% guess and the real number's 35-40%, though that's still lots of room for expansion. =]
-Mark