There has been quite a bit of interest in the tool we’ve been developing to solve the (mis-)alignment of data across our multiple catalogs.
Today we’re pleased to be able to make a release available for download, albeit in an unsupported beta form!
Download Alignment Tool (beta 1) (Firefox 3.5+ or WebKit only)
Whilst we can’t make the data we’re working on available for download, we’ve created an example data set using names from the ECS Eprints repository. The use-case example here is that you have multiple name representations for specific individuals and you’d like to find the matches. Once installed the alignment tool will list all ‘Authors’ and when requested will present basic information about the papers/deposits that the author string was found on. For justifications on why the additional metadata/context is important be sure to read the previous post about the development process for the tool.
If you’d like to get the latest source-code for the tool as it evolves/improves you can check it out from our SVN repository which is hosted on the project’s Google Code page.
Finally, if you’d like to see what the Alignment tool should look like once you’ve got it installed then take a look at this screencast produced by our resident Musicologist David Bretherton for his recent presentation at AHM2010.
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October 19, 2010 at 10:25 am
[...] simple server component of the Alignment Tool. You can read more about the tool in previous posts (Beta Release, Assisted Manual Data Alignment), or download the source yourself and have a [...]
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Dominic Harries
December 1, 2010 at 3:43 pm
This looks like it could be a really useful tool. Are you guys aware of google refine? They seem to be working in a similar area:
http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
Joe
December 6, 2010 at 9:46 am
Hi Dominic,
We weren’t aware of Google Refine, thanks for point it out. I’ve taken a look and it seems like a good solution but not sure how well it would handle our specific use case.
I’m not sure whether it would treat an entire row in the spreadsheet as a single entity, rather performing grouping/alignment on a single facet/column. For MusicNet the metadata we have for a specific composer is used in conjunction with the name to try and offer a disambiguation.
I also wonder (although it would be worth testing) how well it would handle the case of names (proper nouns) as we’ve had problems in the past with similar systems.
For more information on the justifications and design process that led us to our implementation check out the following blog post:
http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/2010/09/08/assisted-manual-data-alignment/
Performance & Usabuility Improvements « MusicNet Blog
December 9, 2010 at 3:46 pm
[...] we’ve been working hard to improve the workflow of our Alignment Tool. Based on the real user experience of the musicologist using the tool daily, we were able to [...]
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January 19, 2011 at 7:40 pm
[...] authority because the alignment across the sources has been performed by scholars in musicology. The alignment tool and the progress to date has been detailed previously. In this post I will overview our [...]
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