Item talk:Q266835

• "Carlos Alvar 2010" - so far a string input. I would recommend to create an Item with that very wording and then i would feed it into the reference section. Eventually you have to spell it out somewhere. Do it later on the Item and you will have the full and exact bibliographic reference wherever you set the provisional item - plus you will now be able to tell where this article was quoted throughout the database. --Olaf Simons (talk) 23:46, 18 June 2023 (CEST)

I understand, but we will create all of the bibliography items through a batch process eventually.Charles Faulhaber (talk) 23:50, 18 June 2023 (CEST)

Well, the string input is not more difficult than anything else. Look at Item:Q529882. Not nice but fully sufficient and doing the very job your string does - plus saving you time later. --Olaf Simons (talk) 08:02, 19 June 2023 (CEST)

The problem is that our BASIS fields in PhiloBiblon contain literally thousands of different strings, only a very small portion of which are like "Carlos Alvar 2010," i.e., a reference to a specific publication. Sometimes they give the page nn. on which the data is found. It would take a massive amount of work to convert these to a form where they could be Q# as opposed to strings. To the extent that they do refer to specific publications, those will be added as P12 objects as references for the entire record but not for specific declarationsCharles Faulhaber (talk) 08:30, 19 June 2023 (CEST)

You need artificial intelligence to do this. "This is our list of reference literature and these are our footnotes. Dear ChatGPT sort it out: tell us where we quoted an article, give us the page numbers etc. for a particular input field..." (I know, I am joking, but that is the future while we have to do our jobs in the miserable present age). --Olaf Simons (talk) 08:51, 19 June 2023 (CEST)

Actually, Joe Hellerstein, a Berkelely professor of Computer Science who is on our advisory board, has already done some experiments with ChatGPT on reconciliation. When we get out new data scientist grad student on board, I am quite sure that we will be looking at this very closely. I expect that it will help to program SPARQL queries!Charles Faulhaber (talk) 08:59, 19 June 2023 (CEST)