The Walker has a copy of the Getty vocabs, and I've been working to map our artist names to ULAN. This is valuable on its face since we can get the correct names and spellings for people in our database, but it becomes really exciting when we can reconcile these names to actual URIs and link up the data. Assuming I'm able to connect those dots (ULAN, DBPedia, etc), is there a "best practice" for storing this information with our Person records? I know this is probably out of scope at the moment, but... it's where I want to be eventually so I thought I'd ask. Nate

A couple of ideas: 1. store the URI in its own field and not mix with literals. Thus, you would have distinct fields: Person="John Doe" PersonURI=<http://bigpersondb/john+doe> 2. Use a known namespace for PersonURI (foaf??) John Deck On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Nate Solas <nate.solas@walkerart.org>wrote: > The Walker has a copy of the Getty vocabs, and I've been working to map > our artist names to ULAN. This is valuable on its face since we can get the > correct names and spellings for people in our database, but it becomes > really exciting when we can reconcile these names to actual URIs and link > up the data. Assuming I'm able to connect those dots (ULAN, DBPedia, etc), > is there a "best practice" for storing this information with our Person > records? I know this is probably out of scope at the moment, but... it's > where I want to be eventually so I thought I'd ask. > > Nate > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk mailing list > Talk@lists.collectionspace.org > > http://lists.collectionspace.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_lists.collectionspace.org > > -- John Deck (541) 321-0689