[Developers] [Data-modeling] Data load issues

[Ed Laurent]

+1

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kirrily Robert <kirrily at metaweb.com>
> wrote:
> > On 28/05/2009, at 1:03 PM, Reilly Hayes wrote:
> >>
> >> We are not relying on the community for this cleanup.  You will not
> >> see these in the merge queue.  We did not want to swamp the merge
> >> queue with these.
> >>
> >
> > What about if the community discover them on their own and flag them
> > for merge, though?  I think that's the situation we're dealing with
> > here.
>
> Precisely.  If I'm working on topics about one design sailboat classes
> and go to add Uffa Fox as the designer of a class and find two of Uffa
> Foxes, my first reaction based on the uniqueness of the name is that
> they've got to be duplicates.  When I look at the two topics to try
> and confirm my suspicion, I find one (apparently) completely blank.
> No little note saying "work in progress - don't touch," no link to
> OpenLibrary, no birth/death dates to help disambiguate such as
> WorldCat might typically have, no real indication as to how to
> proceed.
>
> Given 1.3+ million, mostly notable, people and 0.5 million authors,
> there's bound to be a huge overlap since "notable" people are pretty
> likely to be authors and vice versa.  However, a lot of folks who are
> principally known as naval architects or scientists or engineers
> aren't necessarily going to be typed as Author (and might not even be
> typed as Person making automated disambiguation almost impossible
> without going back to do some analysis of the WP article).
>
> To get people to treat these newly loaded OpenLibrary author topics
> differently today, they need to be identifiable and people need to be
> told what to do differently with them.
>
> Tom
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