Hello -
I am new to this list, but I do not see relevant posts in the archive.
Is there any interest in analyzing the structure of people pages and relationships between them?
People pages seem to have a loosely defined structure. It might be interesting to analyze these pages and automatically build up meta-content that relates people to each other, or that provides for a more consistent searchability of people.
I have done related work with California state lobbying and campaign finance information. This information is published electronically by the state, but the format obfuscates the identity of individuals and the relationships between them. I have been working on disambiguating these people and relationships.
Certainly there are other structured relationship that could be looked at. A genealogy is one example. But there are also ad hoc relationships that can be developed. When one person's page mentions another person's page, for example. This fact could be captured in meta-information that would allow the browsing of these relationships.
Please let me know if there is a better source for this information, apart from this list. It does not seem that there is a separate list for content rather than the discussion of ... um... personalities, but any pointers would be appreciated.
thanx - ray