Open dpitti opened 10 years ago
tingletech
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10 years ago She spotted a person related to Humboldt and asked if we could tell her how they were related.
and by how they were related; I take it they would find this out by researching in the collections they were both mentioned in to look for evidence of the relationship.
This also relates to supporting a more refined vocabulary type for the relationships in the graph.
dpitti
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10 years ago Brian,
Right.
We are not adverse to a more refined vocabulary for relations, we just have no way to algorithmically determine beyond associated and corresponded with.
Mike Rush sent me a pretty impressive list of CPF-CPF relation types and CPF-Resource relation types. What is needed is a thesaurus, broader, narrower. Associated being the least specific for people to people.
Daniel
On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:08 AM, tingletech notifications@github.com wrote:
She spotted a person related to Humboldt and asked if we could tell her how they were related.
and by how they were related; I take it they would find this out by researching in the collections they were both mentioned in to look for evidence of the relationship.
This also relates to supporting a more refined vocabulary type for the relationships in the graph.
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tingletech
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10 years ago I only mention it / note it because it took me a minute to reconcile the two related senses of how. (or maybe it is two phases of how; finding it out and then reducing it to a value from a list)
UNLV has also identified an interesting vocabulary for these relationship types that Kathy Wisser recommended to them.
One thing that troubles me about the second sense is that, unless we can find a list of mutually exclusive and exhaustive relationships, then it will be possible to have an explosion of typed relationships between two entities.
Today I spent some time with a scholar who is interested in Alexandre von Humboldt. Sandra Rebok is her name a fellow at the Huntington Library, currently. She spotted a person related to Humboldt and asked if we could tell her how they were related. I said no, but we could isolate the evidence on which we based the relation, and that she could investigate and see if she could establish the nature of the relation. She was delighted by this prospect. And also delighted she asked a question that was useful to SNAC. She has an interesting biography. German, PhD from Heidelberg, where she grew up. Several years in Paris pursuing further studies. And then the last twenty years in Madrid, at a research institute she described as similar to the Max Planck Institute in Germany. Now at the Huntington for a couple of years. Just published a book via UVa Press on Jefferson and Humboldt correspondence.