On May 19, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Tod Matola wrote:
> There is a problem, the wikipedia policy prevent organizations for adding
> large volumes of links to services, I think to prevent commercial entities
> from polluting the data with bogus links or advertisements for their
> products. OCLC is no exception, we have tried for years.
>
> VIAF is using dbpedia to add links to the VIAF authorities data, so there is
> a work already taking place at finding some of the personal names. I don't
> think you can push stuff back to wikipedia via dbpedia.
>
> I think that OCLC tries to link out to libraries via things like google
> books or openLibrary find in a library links. These links are based on
> holdings that are told and maintained in WorldCat, as creating dead ends for
> things that are not known to be held doesn't really seem useful. I don't
> believe there is an effective way to crawl libraries for holdings, so it is
> based on the members.
>
> I do think the concept of authority control for wikipedia is a really cool
> idea and would be useful (like it has in libraries for decades).
At the IA Summit, Mike Atherton from the BBC gave a talk 'Beyond the
Polar Bear', and mentioned that they were using dbpedia as the
authority for some of the things they were tracking (food items?,
sorry, my brain's a bit foggy, as it was almost 2 months ago)
An earlier version of his talk is up on SlideShare:
http://www.slideshare.net/reduxd/beyond-the-polar-bear
And I guess other people liked the talk, too, as ASIS&T is having
him do it yet again as a webinar next week:
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/beyond-the-polar-bear.html
(Thursday, May 26th, 11:30AM EDT, $25 members, $59 non-members)
...
Now, once people are using DBpedia for this sort of thing, as I assume
the URL in wikipedia is what's being used as the identifier, there
shouldn't be anything to prevent someone making a plug-in for
browsers that'd then be able to find sites like OCLC or BBC who
are using DBpedia in this way.
-Joe
Received on Fri May 20 2011 - 10:04:56 EDT