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.