FAO Logos: Factbook and A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines

According to the blog, A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines now has Factbook support.

But I rarely see it. For example, the Factbook entry for Augustine doesn't list DCBLSD, nor indeed does the entry on Augustine of Canterbury, or Apollinaris, Hadrian I, or countless others.

The only entry I managed to find in DCBLSD was for Polycarp.

Integration for DCBLSD and Factbook would be great, not least because their preference for Latinised names means it's often difficult to find who you're looking for, without controlled vocabulary.

Is this resource going to have more Factbook work on it, or should we report missing entries as errors? (Also, are new entries going to be added to Factbook for people that only appear in the DCBLSD?)

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Bradley Grainger (Logos)

+Sean, Kyle

Sean Boisen

There are two issues at work here:

We still have many Topics (LCV concepts) that need to be integrated with Notable People records. The Factbook entry for Augustine of Hippo isn't yet correctly merged with the Augustine concept, and the link to the DCBLSDVIV entry is connected to the latter. Once we get those correctly merged, you'll only see one Factbook record, and it will have the link.
This resource includes many new people for which we haven't yet created Topic/People data. A rough estimate is that only a quarter of the articles are currently aligned: the rest need new records, so there isn't yet anything for them in Factbook.

We do plan to curate and align the articles for the rest, though there isn't currently a planned completion data.