Re: Given a university's name, retrieve URL for university's home page.

On 14/05/2013, Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Affiliation (for the text name) and ___domain of the lead Author's email should
> give you a little "uncertainty" with which to  resolve DBpedia.  Their rules
> are very fussy and not as much "uncertainty" as you would like, but it is a
> start.

IIUC, this strategy's success rests on (at least) the assumptions that:

[1] Each of the universities I'll be searching for is listed as an
affiliation in at least one publication within NCBI.
[2] For all such publications, the lead author's email address is
provided among the metadata for the publication.
[3] For all such publications, the lead author's email address
incorporates the ___domain of the affliated institution for which I
searched.

I may, as I say, be being a bit slow-minded, but these each strike me
as rather tenuous assumptions; and the likelihood of them all being
true seems even smaller.

Assumption [3], for instance, was false for the first test I ran:
affiliation searched for was "London School of Economics" but although
both authors of the first open access publication listed shared this
affiliation, the contact email's ___domain was "popcouncil.org" rather
than "lse.ac.uk". Assumption [2] was false for the third test I ran:
affiliation searched for was "Royal Holloway", but only the
publication's third author's email address was provided (which
happened to be for the "cam.ac.uk" ___domain).

I suppose I could try to narrow down the results to those with only a
single author, but that still wouldn't automatically fulfil
assumptions [1]-[3].

Perhaps I am still failing to understand the crucial insight that
enabled you to state with confidence that, "The problem is already
solved in fine detail" via the NCBI; if so, please could you share it?

Many thanks,

Sam

Received on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 14:32:50 UTC