GerardM wrote:

The project that you propose has a very large

overlap with the WikiAuthors

project.

Yes, a little bit of déjà vu here ;) :

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiAuthors#Wikicat

This project is as it is described on Meta about

among other things

the disambiguation of Pubmet articles. This project

is extremely likely to

be realised. The functionality that you describe can

and will by and large

be modelled using Wikidata technology.

As this project does use the Wikidata technology, it

would make very much

sense to collaborate and share our efforts and make

one big and beautiful

project.

Absolutely. The issue Wikiauthors is trying to address ([[w:authority control]]) ideally should not be occurring in a professionally-run catalog, and there may still be the possibility that beneath the Pubmed web interface enough information is being recorded in the bibliographic records to uniquely distinguish authors. But in any case the ability to correct or enhance bibliographic data is something Wikicat will definitely need to support, and this hopefully will meet all the needs of Wikiauthors.

Please let us discuss how we can / will collaborate.

Sure. Let's me, you, and Erik take our discussion off the foundation list so as not to bother everyone with unnecessary technical details.

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