{"id":2717,"date":"2009-02-07T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T00:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2009-02-07T19:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T00:35:38","slug":"librarything-and-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/librarything-and-authors.html","title":{"rendered":"LibraryThing and Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/distinct-authors-phase-1-steve-martin.php\"><strong>LibraryThing has implemented the start of a solution<\/strong><\/a> for the problem of distinguishing authors with the same names.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a challenge for libraries since the beginning of cataloging.\u00a0 The accepted solution thus far has been Authority Records.\u00a0 I like that LibraryThing has found a simple, elegant solution that matches what people think and say when distinguishing between two authors with the same name.<\/p>\n<p>I also like that they will be following the Disambiguation model used by Wikipedia; it works well and oftentimes leads users to serindipitous information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LibraryThing has implemented the start of a solution for the problem of distinguishing authors with the same names. This has been a challenge for libraries since the beginning of cataloging.\u00a0 The accepted solution thus far has been Authority Records.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/librarything-and-authors.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2922,2923,2941,2943,2944],"tags":[4318,4319,4791,3878,3111],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cataloging","category-classification","category-language","category-libraries","category-library-20","tag-authority","tag-disambiguation","tag-elegant-solution","tag-librarything","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-HP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}