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On 1/23/15 4:18 PM, Mark Baker wrote: >> but beyond that you would still need a way to >> >determine which of the many "Ken Smith"s to use, if any. Some smarts are >> >needed to, for example, check that the dates are possible, that the domain >> >is similar, and so forth to rank them appropriately. Then it would need to >> >present the known information about the people to the cataloguer so they can >> >select one, or create a new entry. > That does seem a valuable path forward. Pull requests gratefully > accepted (or fork away!) Wish I could fork, but ... author names alone are pretty much useless [1]. There's no reason why additional information can't be provided to give the cataloger some grounds for selection. [2] And we should be doing the same for users. kc [1] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2007/09/name-authority-control-aka-name.html [2] https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=michael+fitzgerald -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600