This is just a proof-of-concept exploring putting together an authority list of primary-world people for the Tolkien Linked Open Data Project.
I have initially gathered:
- entries from Scull and Hammond’s Reader’s Guide
- authors from Le Dragon de Brume’s bibliography
- artists from the TCG Guide to Calendars
- senders and recipients from the TCG Guide to Letters
- people in the index to Carpenter’s Biography
The raw lists can be found in raw-lists (the bibliography authors extracted
using scripts/convert-bibl.py)
Since then, Le Dragon de Brume has produced raw-lists/names-biblio.yaml.
An initial merge was done with scripts/merge.py to produce merged.txt which
We are manually inspecting and editing to group likely duplicates with
alternative names (or, in some cases, typos).
We have taken a first pass through surnames beginning with A through N.
This data is made available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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