Hello Stuart,
Do you mean that you want to convert LCNAF personal names from this sort
of order:
Mudge, Lewis Seymour, 1868-1945
to something like this:
Lewis Seymour Mudge, 1868-1945
? But then also deal with authorized forms containing no commas, forms
with more than two commas, and occasional use of parentheses. So, as
you know, it gets complicated.
I wonder if a different approach might make more sense here:
1. Query the inverted LCNAF form at https://id.loc.gov/
2. Retrieve the URI, extracting the identifier (beginning with "n")
3. Query Wikidata using this identifier.
4. Retrieve Wikidata's form of the name, which is not inverted.
--Kevin
On 5/3/26 1:25 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> Does anyone know of somewhere that describes LCCN authorised personal names
> as regexps? I want to be able to rewrite them at scale to 'normal' order.
>
> AI appears to be actively undermining the functionality of search engines.
>
> cheers
> stuart
> --
> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
Received on Mon May 04 2026 - 14:07:57 EDT