Non-Dataset attestations (NDAs) & LLM Link Suggestions

[docuracy]

"Add the ability for contributors to easily add individual attestations rather than larger datasets, by coding a module for attestation contributions on the portal page for any given place ... Add a button on each portal page which would offer users a selection of potential matches generated from large language models for approval or rejection". [RM]

• There are as yet only 7 named sources in the database, possibly because the Source class/object is not well-documented in the LPF model. It has 4 user-defined properties, these being src_id (a short identifier such as "dbpedia" or "EA"), a more descriptive label, a citation, and an as-yet optional uri. It needs to be tightened up by breaking the citation down into constituent parts including a publication (i.e. attestation) -year and making the uri compulsory (otherwise it's not linked data in our frame of reference).

• A PlaceLink is the means by which a well-defined Source can be linked to a Place record, thereby serving the function of a NDA. It's defined in LPF here, but needs additionally to allow a src_id in lieu of the currently allowed urls and namespace resources.

• A widget on the place portal pages would need to facilitate creation of, or selection of a pre-existing, Source record.

[docuracy]

LLMs can be coaxed into formatting suggestions like this, for Rotherhithe in Surrey, UK (OpenAI Playground):

{
  "attestations": [
    {
      "variants": {
        "place_name": "Redriff",
        "year": 1598
      },
      "coordinates": {
        "lat": 51.5,
        "lng": -0.035
      },
      "citation": {
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "The Evolution of English Place Names",
        "container-title": "Journal of Historical Topography",
        "page": "102-115",
        "volume": "35",
        "issue": "2",
        "author": [
          {
            "family": "Thornbury",
            "given": "Walter"
          }
        ],
        "issued": {
          "date-parts": [
            [
              1993
            ]
          ]
        },
        "URL": "https://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022529300023099"
      }
    },
    {
      "variants": {
        "place_name": "Rotherhithe",
        "year": 1732
      },
      "coordinates": {
        "lat": 51.5,
        "lng": -0.0333
      },
      "citation": {
        "type": "book",
        "title": "The Place Names of Surrey",
        "publisher": "Cambridge University Press",
        "author": [
          {
            "family": "Field",
            "given": "John"
          }
        ],
        "issued": {
          "date-parts": [
            [
              1980
            ]
          ]
        },
        "URL": "https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/place-names-of-surrey/1020304950223"
      }
    }
  ]
}