From: Demian K. <dem...@vi...> - 2010-09-21 12:48:46
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All good ideas. I imagine you have drifted pretty far from trunk on these things... but if you have any code you would be willing to share, it might be worth reintegrating at some point! - Demian > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Triggs [mailto:mt...@nl...] > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:08 AM > To: Eoghan Ó Carragáin > Cc: Jason Harper; vuf...@li... > Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] FW: Wikipedia links > > At the NLA we use the Australian Dictionary of Biography in preference > to Wikipedia (it has very good and very detailed coverage of Australian > authors), but we do still fall back to using Wikipedia too: > > > http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:"Knuth,%20Donald > %20Ervin,%201938-"&iknowwhatimean=1 > > We've had a couple of people comment on false matches, and have > done our best to tighten up the matches by requiring that either: > > - Any life dates in the author's description also appear in the > article; or > > - The word "author", "writer", "journalist" or "novelist" appears in > the first sentence of the article. > > That is, we err on the side of not showing a bio if we're in doubt. On > the whole this works fairly well, but we have nevertheless had a > handful > of false matches. For those cases I've implemented a blacklist that > allows us to suppress biographies on an author-by-author basis and that > seems to keep everyone happy. > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > Eoghan Ó Carragáin <eog...@gm...> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > We disabled Wikipedia articles, not because of concerns about it as a > > source, but because of false matches, e.g. this is not the Austin > > Clarke that I was looking for: > > > http://vufind.org/demo/Author/Home?author=Clarke%2C%20Austin%2C%201896- > 1974. > > > > The National Library of Australia use content provided by the > > Australian Dictionary of Biography: > > > http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Cook,%20James > ,%201728-1779%22&iknowwhatimean=1 > > > > Eoghan > > > > On 21 September 2010 09:13, Stewart Brownrigg > <S.J...@ke...<mailto:S.J...@ke...>> wrote: > > Good day all, > > > > Please see the attached question. Are other UK Universities having > this problem? > > > > Our academics want the Wikipedia links withdrawn for author bios., > > because they think we are setting a bad example. They do not want to > > encourage their students to use Wikipedia as a source. > > > > Many thanks, > > Stewart > > -- > > Stewart J Brownrigg, Library Systems Officer > > S20 Cornwallis South, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, > UK > > +44(0)1227 823621 (824243 fax); > S.J...@ke...<mailto:S.J...@ke...> > > > > From: Jason Harper > > Sent: 20 September 2010 17:53 > > To: Stewart Brownrigg > > Subject: Wikipedia links > > > > Stewart, > > > > [Academic-related staff] are causing a lot of trouble over the > > Wikipedia entries for author biogs. They have emailed academics and > > prompted them to call for its withdrawal. Are other UK university > > libraries using this functionality? > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > -- > Mark Triggs > <mt...@nl...> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > VuFind-General mailing list > VuF...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general |