Proposed Group: Entity Reconciliation Community Group

The Entity Reconciliation Community Group has been proposed by Antonin Delpeuch:

Matching entities across data sources using different identifiers and formats is a pervasive issue on the web.

This group revolves around developing a web API that data providers can expose, which eases the reconciliation of third-party data to their own identifiers. OpenRefine’s reconciliation API is used as a starting point. Our goals are to document this existing API, share our experiences and lessons learnt from it, propose an improved protocol in the view of promoting it as a standard, and build tooling around it.

A description of the existing protocol can be found here:
https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team