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Provide human-readable labels and descriptions in Mix'n'match catalogs #364

Closed trnstlntk closed 5 years ago

trnstlntk commented 5 years ago

I would be very happy to lend a hand with manual matching in the various Mix'n'match catalogs provided via the soweego project. I'm a very active Mix'n'match user.

However, the current soweego Mix'n'match catalogs are not easy to use, as they provide no clear human-readable labels and descriptions. I would suggest putting some effort in making these available in Mix'n'match, next to the soweego confidence scores.

A pleasant and usable catalog in MnM looks like this, for instance - inviting active participation and manual matching: image Note that there is a human-readable label for the item in the original catalog, that allows immediate comparison with the Wikidata label; and there is a human-readable description snippet that allows direct comparison with the automated description from Wikidata.

Compare this to a soweego catalog: image The user first needs to click and open a tab to check each item in MusicBrainz, unlike in the previous example. This makes matching much more tedious. I would like to ask that the IDs here would be replaced with the actual item names from the external database, and that a short informative description would be scraped from the source database that can be checked immediately in addition to the soweego score.

marfox commented 5 years ago

Thanks a lot @fokky for your detailed feedback, super appreciated. This is a known issue, see #325 . I'm closing yours as a duplicate, add the description field request and raise the priority to #325 , which was originally out of the first project grant time span.