[WikiEN-l] structure/ideas for people pages?

Sun Aug 31 00:10:34 UTC 2003

Hello -

I am new to this list, but I do not see relevant posts in the archive.

Is there any interest in analyzing the structure of people pages and 
relationships between them?

People pages seem to have a loosely defined structure. It might be 
interesting to analyze these pages and automatically build up 
meta-content that relates people to each other, or that provides for a 
more consistent searchability of people.

I have done related work with California state lobbying and campaign 
finance information. This information is published electronically by 
the state, but the format obfuscates the identity of individuals and 
the relationships between them. I have been working on disambiguating 
these people and relationships.

Certainly there are other structured relationship that could be looked 
at. A genealogy is one example. But there are also ad hoc relationships 
that can be developed. When one person's page mentions another person's 
page, for example. This fact could be captured in meta-information that 
would allow the browsing of these relationships.

Please let me know if there is a better source for this information, 
apart from this list. It does not seem that there is a separate list 
for content rather than the discussion of ... um... personalities, but 
any pointers would be appreciated.

thanx - ray

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RayKiddy